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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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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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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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
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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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There are lots of things I would love to wear but wouldn't because I know they look stupid on me.
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I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
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I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
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All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.
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There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
