William Gibson Quotes
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.William Gibson
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
Karen DeCrow -
I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
D'Arcy Carden -
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
Farrah Fawcett -
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
Sam Harris -
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
Ian Mckellen -
Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
Zubin Mehta
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
Majora Carter -
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
Gayle Forman -
As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
Laura Osnes -
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock -
Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
Randall Munroe
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I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
Hank Azaria -
We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
Rand Paul -
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
B. F. Skinner -
When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
Nana Mouskouri -
Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.
Paula Hawkins -
I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
John Bonham Led Zeppelin -
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.
William Gibson