William Gibson Quotes
I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
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'Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.'
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Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
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Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
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Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.
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I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.
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Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
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Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something.
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I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.
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The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
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There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.
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Can you imagine what that little conversation is going to look like, held in the independent counsel's office, with the people there who have the capacity to put Ms. Lewinsky in jail? ... Can we really say that it's just normal, just OK, to have one side using the might and majesty of the independent counsel's office threatening a witness with violation of an immunity agreement if she doesn't fly across the country for this little chat? I think not.
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I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.
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Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.
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Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
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Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
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In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.
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I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
