Bruce Sterling Quotes
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
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Chess is mental torture.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.
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Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
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There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
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'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
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A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it.
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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
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Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.
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I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
