Jamais Cascio Quotes
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.
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Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.
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Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them.
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I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.
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I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.
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Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
