Andy Weir Quotes
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
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If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.
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The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.
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I was a huge fan of Lance Armstrong. The only way that they caught him using doping was through a criminal investigation where they got all of his teammates who did the exact same thing that he did and got away with it to rat him out in exchange for their own immunity. The byproduct of that was that he had passed 500 anti-doping controls clean. So I'm going, "Wait, wait, wait. It's not, 'What's wrong with Lance Armstrong?' What's wrong with this system that was thoroughly ineffective to catch someone cheating for the last 15 years?"
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.
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Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
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If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.
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A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
