Bruce Sterling Quotes
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
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I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
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A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
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Information wants to be free. Believe it.
