Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!
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So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.
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The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.
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In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
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Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
