William Gibson Quotes
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
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When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
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All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
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And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.
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Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon.
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It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
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I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
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My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.
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Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
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When someone makes a mistake, it's right to underline this type of situation and find the best solution to avoid the same mistake in the future.
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I always want to work.
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'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'
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I remember I wanted to be Zorro, but I also wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I obviously had ideas above my station.
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Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
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I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.
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In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.
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I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
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Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
