Bruce Sterling Quotes
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
Bruce Sterling
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
Salma Hayek
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
Carlos Ghosn
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
Kate Reardon
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
Pat Summitt
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
Mads Mikkelsen
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
Ian Thorpe
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
Abbas Kiarostami
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
Gary Coleman
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
Magnus Larsson
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
Ma Jun
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I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced.
Dale Chihuly
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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
Abe Fortas
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Now folks say 'I believe in this Internet world and I want to disclose my data before publishing ... but don't scoop me on my own project.'
Eric Lander
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The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
Bruce Sterling
