William Gibson Quotes
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
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I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.
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You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.
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Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.
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Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
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No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.
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If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
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Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
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Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
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Hermione, will you please —” “Don’t you tell me what to do, Harry Potter!” she screeched. “Don’t you dare! Give it back now! And YOU!” She was pointing at Ron in dire accusation: It was like a malediction, and Harry could not blame Ron for retreating several steps.
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I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.
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What is next to ecstasy?
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I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.
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One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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You’re free to dream however you wish,” Nollin teased. “But don’t ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic—” “Then don’t ask us to share your weakness!” Jason interrupted.
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Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
