Bruce Sterling Quotes
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
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The Righteous Brothers started out in Orange County, California. It was about the whitest place in the country, but the black marines from the nearby base heard there were two guys singing rhythm and blues, so they came down to hear us. At the end of our songs they'd yell out, 'That's righteous, brother!' and that's how we got our name.
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My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.
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To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable - il n'a pas commencé l'histoire - ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.
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In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
