Jamais Cascio Quotes
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.
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I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
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Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
