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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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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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'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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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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Women just love to shop.
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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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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
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As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.
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It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
