Esther Dyson Quotes
It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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I think women love to read love stories.
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I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
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I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
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I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
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What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
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It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.
