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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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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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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The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
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I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
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It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
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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.
