Esther Dyson Quotes
In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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I love it when someone that inspires me is not only good because of what they inspire me for, but also because they're just an amazing person.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
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I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
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I do guest vocals all the time.
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Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.
