George Gilder Quotes
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology...
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
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There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.
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Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.
