Esther Dyson Quotes
People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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I was born free.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
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If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.
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I'd like to jump a couple hundred years into the future and work with the scientists who are getting back the first information from our probes to planets orbiting nearby stars.
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Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.
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People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.
