Kim Swift Quotes
One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
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One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'
