Ernest Cline Quotes
I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.
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It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
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You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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When we're recording, I always dress up.
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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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I have a great tip - I have a jumping rope in the house, and I just do ten minutes of it whenever I can. You don't need to work out for hours, just ten minutes will do.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.
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I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
