William Gibson Quotes
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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In biblical Greek the word "repent" comes from a military term similar to the command "about face." In...sermons, repentance is all about "turning away' from sin, and certainly repentance would include an element of that. However, the deeper flavor of his word is less about turning away from something and more about turning toward something. As much as the word "repent" makes many of us recoil, what if it is enjoining us to turn away from our fear of God and to turn toward the love of God? what if we simply confess that God is love, and then put a period at the end of the sentence? God is love. Period.
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They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.
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Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.
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…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.
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We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
