Jaron Lanier Quotes
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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Kate Moss. She looks good in anything. She would look good in one of your t-shirts, in her t-shirt, in a man's suit, in a huge gown. She looks amazing naked. She even makes nude look stylish. That, to me, is a style icon. She could put a barrel on and it would be some sort of statement.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
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The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed.
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Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
