"Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)"

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Source : Tom Angleberger (2012). “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda”, p.110, Abrams

Tom Angleberger

#Uncles Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Men Quotes

“The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.”
“Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.”
“This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.”
“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
“Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.”
“We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.”
“If I'm going to spunk Â£500 on a pair of designer shoes, it's going to be a pair that I can a) dance to Bad Romance in and b) will allow me to run away from a murderer, should one suddenly decide to give chase. That's the minimum I ask from my footwear. To be able to dance in it, and for it not to get me murdered.”

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