Bruce Sterling Quotes

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

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• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

  

  Earl Monroe
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• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
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• If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
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• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

  

  Abby Elliott
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• I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.

  

  Lake Bell
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• I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

  

  Becky G
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• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

  

  Adam Osborne
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• When I first started on television, people, and even my own manager at the time, would tell me I had to make all of these changes. But you have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!' And when you can really believe that, all of a sudden other people start believing, too.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
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• My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.

  

  Cameron Russell
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• When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.

  

  Bob Beckel

• You can always tell when gas is expensive. You always see street gangs doing walk-bys.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

  

  Busy Philipps
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• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  

  Bruce Sterling
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