William Gibson Quotes
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
Vicki Lawrence
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.
Tama Janowitz
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I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
T. J. Miller
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On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
Barton Gellman
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Indian food is a luxury on tour.
Mahesh Bhupathi
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Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.
Richard Feynman
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New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.
Esther Dyson
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
Otis Blackwell
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When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
Harvey Mackay
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God gives all
God asks all
Elisabeth Elliot
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.
William Gibson