Andy Weir Quotes
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.
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I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
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If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.
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I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.
