Esther Dyson Quotes
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.
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[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.
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The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.
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As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
