William Gibson Quotes
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
William Gibson
Quotes to Explore
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Lady Gaga
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
Patrick deWitt
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
Ferdinand Buisson
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Natalie Portman
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
Lana Del Rey
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
Kara Hayward
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
Yuri Andropov
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
Kapil Sibal
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
Camila Alves
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda
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The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest.
We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.
William Landay
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If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
Woody Guthrie
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The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.
Raph Koster
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For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.
Brian Kernighan
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Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
Abraham Lincoln
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
William Gibson
