Ernest Cline Quotes
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
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Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
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Everyone and everythig that humanity has ever loved, or cared for, has lived on our precious earth.
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All is ask is that I get a heads up as soon as possible so I can lose this weight before I have to see people again.
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I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
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I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
