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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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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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 was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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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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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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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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It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.
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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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I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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As a songwriter, I feel like, just for inspiration and research purposes, I have to listen to everything.
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I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?
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How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?
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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.
