William Gibson Quotes
All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.
