Andy Weir Quotes
I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.
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Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
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I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
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Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
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I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.
