Jaron Lanier Quotes
The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much.
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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
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The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.
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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
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I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.
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I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.
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I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
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When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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'That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before.''Then here goes another,' says he, 'to make sure,For there 's luck in odd numbers,' says Rory O'More.
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I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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It's not my liking for guns, what about the NRA? We all have the rights to bear arms, I have that, I have that same right as you do. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I shouldn't have a gun; I legally own guns.
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These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.
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We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - 'Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.'
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I like to date schoolteachers. If you do something wrong, they make you do it over again.
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Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
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For every hour of pain I have had a day of pleasure. For every moment of worry, an hour of content.
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There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
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The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much.
