Jamais Cascio Quotes
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.
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Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.
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I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.
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The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.
