Esther Dyson Quotes
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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In China we need to do our own part to try to combat global climate change.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
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I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.
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I love people and I love to be around people.
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Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
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I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
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The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
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Charity is another passion of mine and I think it's important to give back. I'm a lucky guy, I've had a great life, I have a great family. I'm very blessed that way, so I believe in giving back a lot.
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We see that coming back in the fourth quarter and going on into next year.
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We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.
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Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
