Marc Platt Quotes
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
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I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.'
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
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I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.
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The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart, if he'll have me. It's not competitive with CNN and it's too much fun.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
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We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.
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For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?
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Computer scientists have been working on finding this balance for more than fifty years. They even have a name for it: the explore/exploit tradeoff.
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When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
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Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.
