William Gibson Quotes
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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I did the Vines first, and then I chose Instagram because the filters were better, and you could post the best picture of yourself, which I figured would help my modeling career.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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After PepsiCo, I do want to go to Washington. I want to give back.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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'Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.'
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People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.
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I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.
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A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.
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Already in 1915, Sophie Taeuber his wife divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period. She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
