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" I've never really had a media edifice supporting me. "
Tucker Max
Media
Edifice
Had
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" Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people. "
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" I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester. "
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" I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them. "
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" Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable. "
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" You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity. "
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" I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore. "
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" Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another. "
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" I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women? "
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Laugh
" If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma. "
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" If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program. "
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You
" I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures. "
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Good
" My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro. "
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Mom
Life
" Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. "
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" Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future. "
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World
Future
Better
" I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with - people who are probably going to do great things anyway - and I just teach them what I know, maybe teach them how to think a little clearer than they did before, and then off they go. "
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" Obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is 'Iron Chef.' Not the stupid American version; 'Iron Chef' Japanese; the real one, the one that was on in Japan... my DVR for years was set to record almost every single 'Iron Chef' episode. "
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Food
Stupid
" Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art. "
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Human
Art
" I don't even pursue girls anymore. I mean, I could obviously still pursue girls. It's not like I can't. But I don't have to pursue girls anymore. Girls come to me. "
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Come
Pursue
" I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people. "
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Better
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" Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much. "
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Isolation
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" Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products. "
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Other
" When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled. "
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" I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship. "
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" I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy. "
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Live
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" It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way. "
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" At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now. "
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" No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff. "
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" If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it. "
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