Stewart Brand Quotes
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I love cycling.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
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I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
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In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I'm not questioning it.
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I have olive trees and have tried my hand at curing small batches of olives, with varying degrees of success. So sometimes there are leftover olives I use in pasta sauce because they didn't quite make the grade.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.
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I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.
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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.
