Scarlett Thomas Quotes
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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I hate birthdays.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
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I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.
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The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.
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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...The new media are not ways of relating us to the old world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.
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But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
