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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Picking roles, my way of choosing them is vastly different now than it was a long time ago, but I can only be that way now because of what I've learned from the past. So I'm choosing now not to choose any work, because when you've had such a nice ride, unexpected rides and fulfilling rides, you really don't want to take a step backwards. It's really made me satisfied in a way that I wasn't looking for, but I was blessed with it and now I feel really full, in a good way, where I don't need to rush out and go find something.
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I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.
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I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire,” Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. “If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.” “Nice,” Shane said. “I’m warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey.” “No, you’re not.” “Okay, no, I’m not, but right now let’s pretend I am.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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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.
