I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. - James Brown
This is an area that the chain stores don't bother with. We provide a personal service to the individual looking for a particular book. It may take us a while and a lot of research but we usually deliver. - James Brown
I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well. - George Clooney
I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money. - George Clooney
It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period. - George Clooney
I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of. - George Clooney
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do. - George Clooney
A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive. - Gabe Newell
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?' - Gabe Newell
I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things. - Gabe Newell
Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing. - Gabe Newell
Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful. - Gabe Newell
I am greatly proud of the fact that 'Doom' is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had 'Doom' run on it, and I think that's been one of the great aspects of having it be open source: having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date. - John Carmack
It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis. - John Carmack
It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of 'What if you screw up once?' or 'What if the market changes?' - John Carmack
I didn't know for sure that I could make a game alone, I just cultivated a faith in myself. - Eric Barone
I'm choosing to do this much work because I want to be an indie game developer and see my project come to fruition. - Eric Barone
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