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I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who...

I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don’t care about the films. I don’t care if they’re flushed down the toilet after I...

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I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it...

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen

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Real artists ship.

Real artists ship. Steve Jobs, meaning that while making Great things is important, it is even more important to actually produce things that can be delivered to people.

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Live as if you were already dead.

Live as if you were already dead. Zen Admonition

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We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that...

We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have, and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying....

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I have enough anger to last me 100 years. But I will channel that into my work.

I have enough anger to last me 100 years. But I will channel that into my work. Julian Assange, Wikileaks

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[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she...

[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And...

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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men...

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every...

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The I Ching, on Limits

A lake is something limited. Water is inexhaustible. A lake can contain only a definite amount of the infinite quantity of water; this is its peculiarity. In human life too the individual achieves...

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