William Gibson Quotes
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
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Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
