William Gibson Quotes
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
Quotes to Explore
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.
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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
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If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
