Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.
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I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.
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A steady job is at least as deleterious to the spirit of bachelorhood as a steady date. Some jobs are worse than actual wives.
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...his mother was very old, and his father was no longer alive - hence there cannot be another Kapil Dev!
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I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
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What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
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It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance.
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I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
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I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.
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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
