Jim Barksdale Quotes
It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.
