William Gibson Quotes
[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
William Gibson
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
Udonis Haslem
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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Our survey results reinforce our outlook for a continued slowdown in e-commerce sales. At this early juncture of the holiday season, consumers are not shifting a significant share of spending online from offline.
Anthony Noto
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Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
George Washington
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The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?
Eben Moglen
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Victoria Woodhull
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Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Moliere
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[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
William Gibson