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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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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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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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
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In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
