Jaron Lanier Quotes
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.
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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
