Esther Dyson Quotes
People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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The most important effects of Christianity went out from it without the intention of the Church, or even against its will.
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The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
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The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
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We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.
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I had to work at everything.
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I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.
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I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.
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Fashion is a logical place to start to raise awareness for sustainable causes.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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I was hopeful to be here. I was counting on my fingers what four months was, and my doctor told me that would be really pushing it.
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At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
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People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.