Roderick MacKinnon Quotes

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Roderick MacKinnon

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Small ThingsPeopleWorldSmallLook

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

Amber Tamblyn

LifeGodAngryPeopleRealOut

I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There's only one problem. It's completely untrue.

Steven Crowder

MarriageAgePeopleBelieveProblem

I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.

Lou Barlow

CarePunkManifestationTakingGear

When I go out to play, I still believe I'm as good as anyone out there. I don't have to prove anyone wrong. I know what I've done and how well I can play.

Lleyton Hewitt

GoodBelieveI CanWrongPlayKnow

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

Denise Mina

ChildrenGreatPeopleReadingNobody

It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.

Chieh Huang

Tough TimesFoodMomSisterRandom

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

Coolio

MotherGreatCookingMomWatching

I'm giving curvy women a seat at a table that we've never been invited to before - a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.

Ashley Graham

WomenBeautifulPeopleFashionTable

The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence.

Thomas Mallon

GameLogicYearYouPoorSolar

When I invite people over to my apartment, they usually don't like it because the music I play confuses the crap out of them - I'm making people listen to the 'Final Fantasy' soundtrack, and they're like, 'Why is this happening? Let's just leave and find somebody who wants us to have fun and not teach us about something.'

Thundercat

MusicFunPeopleHave FunFindPlay

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Thomas Fuller

ArtWorldFameMoreEchoLast

A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.

Tim Crouch

StoryPersonPlayYoungRealUp

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