Bruce Sterling Quotes

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Bruce Sterling

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• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Long
  • Face
  • Independence

• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Coffee

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Guy
  • You
  • Nice

• I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Romantic

• I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Question
  • Always
  • Trouble

• I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Funny
  • They Say

• The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • World
  • Two

• You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Way
  • You
  • Stop

• I vowed I would bring you solace in time of need. Please don't make me break my vows.

  

  E. L. James
  • Time

• A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Distance

• Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Why
  • Mistake

• Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

  

  Edward Young

• The people finally know. They've been told about the mutants. And they hated the mutants. Of course, they hated them. They hated them because the existence of the mutants makes them second-class humans, because they are Neanderthalers suddenly invaded by a bow and arrow people.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • People

• There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school.

  

  Lili Simmons
  • People
  • School
  • High

• The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Mind
  • Daily

• I believe if people understood each other more, if people took the time and realize it's not 'all about me' and I'm on a big planet with a lot of other people and concerns, maybe we can learn how to get along with each other.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Learn
  • I Believe
  • Planet

• All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing - that the soul is eternal.

  

  Meher Baba
  • God
  • Important
  • Experience

• The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Help
  • Perfect

• The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Book
  • Community
  • Suffering

• I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

  

  Bruce Sterling