Bruce Sterling Quotes
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?
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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
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Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
