William Gibson Quotes
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God does arithmetic.
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.
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Never give up, and never give in.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
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I love Jo Malone. I got the Orange Blossom scent as a gift many years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's very light, natural, sweet. It's there but not that obvious.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
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Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
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Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I don't want to spend my time thinking about somebody else, I want to spend my time just being me and embracing life and living it and being there. At the end of the day, I'm responsible for my words and my thoughts and that's how I live.
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There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.
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Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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I wanted to make room for antiheroes.
