William Gibson Quotes
I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
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I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.
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I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.
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I think Egyptian authorities have not yet gotten the measure of the Sinai problem.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.
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Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
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I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.
