William Gibson Quotes

The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.

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• About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Information
  • Nose
  • Genetic

• I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Speak

• We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Press

• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Support
  • Care
  • Show

• I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Up
  • Family
  • America

• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Present

• The number-one philosophical battle therefore takes place on the frontier between the scientific and the ideological. There the idealist philosophies which exploit the sciences struggle against the materialist philosophies which serve the sciences.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Struggle
  • Philosophical

• You can recognize almost immediately if the film you're watching is the product of some kind of a hive mind or the result of a personal vision and genuine collaborations. 'Manchester by the Sea' reminds us of the potential of the latter and, for that reason, is the kind of work that makes me, as a filmmaker, want to continue. It's inspiring.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Vision

• So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

  

  Christy Turlington

• Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I'm like, 'Okay, I have my eye on this,' or whatever.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Rock

• I know my husband loves me fiercely and passionately. I know he supports me and will always stand up for me.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • Up
  • Husband

• I work out every day.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Work

• Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

  

  Louis XVIII of France

• It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

  

  Kenny Hickey
  • Up
  • Effort

• Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

  

  Lisa Bonet

• The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Why
  • Situation

• Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Women
  • Age
  • Green

• There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Reason
  • Mystery

• As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.

  

  Erin Maya Darke
  • Writing
  • Actor
  • Scripts

• I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Pain

• The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.

  

  William Gibson
  • Transparency
  • Constructs
  • Glasnost