Geoff Ryman Quotes
'253' has a little bit of time in it, but basically, everything's happening at once in a small space, and you're exploring the space. 'What happens next?' is not the question that you're asking or answering. It's where do you go, and why should you go there?
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I am a Buddhist.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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I get a great high from writing.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities.
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How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
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I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, 'OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?'
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Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.
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'253' has a little bit of time in it, but basically, everything's happening at once in a small space, and you're exploring the space. 'What happens next?' is not the question that you're asking or answering. It's where do you go, and why should you go there?
