William Gibson Quotes
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot at and punched. I have. I've paid my dues to be able to say I'm not a racist.
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I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
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I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
