William Gibson Quotes
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
William Gibson
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One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
Jack Paar
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Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.
Phil Lesh
Grateful Dead
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Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY.
Stevie Wonder
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
Walker Evans
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
Liane Moriarty
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Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.
B. Joseph Pine II
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The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.
F. Lee Bailey
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I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.
Corey Haim
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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.
Quentin Tarantino
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It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
Sophocles
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
Albert Einstein
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To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
John Stuart Mill
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
John Locke
Nazareth
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The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.
Albert Einstein
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"
Paul Davies
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Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.
Charles Negre
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
William Gibson
