Esther Dyson Quotes
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
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Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.
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A satellite has no conscience.
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Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.
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One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
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The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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I feel like that's what's going to be most respected at the end of the day, that I'm able to do so many different things and become less of a rapper and just more as a musician.
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And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.