Bruce Sterling Quotes
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
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Always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
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"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
