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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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks
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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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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
Bayard Taylor
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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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I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
Kristen Stewart
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I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
Warren Ellis
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
Hamilton Jordan
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The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
Bruce Sterling
