William Gibson Quotes
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
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To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.
