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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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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Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.
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You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"
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For people trying to set a tone, communicate a message and set themselves apart, it makes a lot of sense to put music at the heart of that.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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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.
