Bruce Sterling Quotes
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.Bruce Sterling
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
Damien Hirst -
I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
Talcott Parsons -
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson -
I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
Kailash Satyarthi -
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
Barry Eisler
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand -
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
Karl Pilkington -
I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
Haley Joel Osment -
How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
Barry Schwartz -
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
Ralph Merkle
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
Walter Kirn -
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
Zooey Deschanel -
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu -
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson -
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles -
I like very much to put on fashion shows.
Raf Simons
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
Kamala Harris -
I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They're wrapped, and from Earth all we can do is look at the boxes to see whether they're light or heavy, to see if something maybe jiggles a bit inside. We're seeing intriguing things, but we really don't know what's in there.
Alan Stern -
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston -
'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
Chuck Palahniuk -
You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.
Jon Lester -
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
Bruce Sterling