Up Quotes
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Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.
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It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.
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We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.
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I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. 'Aren't you tired?' I'm like, 'No.' I'm like an insomniac, I hardly sleep, I'm always on the move.
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If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.
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My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
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I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
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To be clear, I normally climb with a rope and partner. Free-soloing makes up only a small percentage of my total climbing. But when I do solo, I manage the risk through careful preparation. I don't solo anything unless I'm sure I can do it.
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Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.
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Growing up in California, I grew up a JT Snow fan.
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When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'
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I didn't grow up on comics, and I read very few.
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If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
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'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.
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More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
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I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.
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The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!
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I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.
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Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were in coffee shops instead of bars. I'd get up and go, 'Hi, I'm 17, and I have jokes about matriculation!' At the time I was like, 'Why is no one laughing?'
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I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.
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I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.
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I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it's because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn't want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.
