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Randall Munroe Quotes

It's amazing what's buried in old, poorly digitized PDFs hosted on some random professor's website.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1984

Topics

Amazing Random Website Old Professor

In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.

Work Good Sports Me Weekend London

When I traveled around the country visiting women in their own homes and talking to them about their closets, every woman lamented about 'settling' for many of the pieces in her closet.

Women Woman Talking Traveled Country

People often ask me why I choose to primarily play queer characters, and my answer is that as a queer man, I choose to align myself with projects in which I can be of service for a purpose greater than myself: to be for an audience of queer people of color, something I didn't have the privilege of seeing as a young man.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Myself Service Man Purpose People

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Fall Always Dice Zeus Luckily

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

Work Good Time Fly Friends Out

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Confidence Power Moving Forward Think

Being a kid and growing up in Cleveland, the Tonys were how you saw Broadway shows: you got to hear from each show, and that's what inspired me to live my dream, so the fact that I am getting recognition from them, it's mind-blowing.

Live I Am Me Growing Up Recognition

Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.

Girl Old Dancing Years Club Lessons

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

Football Eating You Tide Wrong

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

People Start You Bad Guilty Know

I was in the company of movie stars, important directors, and powerful business tycoons. I felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.

Stars Business Powerful Down Company

We should be clear that we prefer a system that allows people to come to the U.S. with visas, not in the hands of smugglers.

People Hands System Clear Come

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