Esther Dyson Quotes

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

Esther Dyson

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• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • House
  • Small

• The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Party
  • Angry
  • Election

• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • God
  • Truth

• When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Project
  • Materials
  • Budget

• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Single
  • Problem
  • Sad

• The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Painting
  • Point
  • Deception

• New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Good
  • Long
  • City

• Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• There might be other assistance that can be offered.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Assistance
  • Propose

• Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Stars
  • Sees

• (Highland) made the adjustment - they just didn't hit them.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Adjustment
  • Highland

• All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Impulse

• To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Care

• If you believe in God you are at no disadvantage in this life, and at considerable advantage in the next. If you do not believe, but find in the next that there was a next, you are most unfortunate!

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • Disadvantage
  • Believe In God

• Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Laws
  • Morals
  • Observed

• I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Never
  • Habit
  • Guess

• I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Always
  • My Life

• The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Country
  • Age
  • Food

• There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

  

  Esther Dyson
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  • Disadvantage
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