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.William Gibson
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.
Edmund Phelps -
'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Fat Joe -
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti -
Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Imelda Staunton -
Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton -
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
S. Truett Cathy
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith -
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!
Maimonides -
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
M. F. Husain -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna -
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.
Fatou Bensouda
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
C. K. Williams -
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.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian McShane -
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.
Dallas Willard -
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.
Earl Scruggs -
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
Vikram Seth
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan -
Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
Randy Quaid -
But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.
John W. Snow -
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
Helen Suzman -
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man?
Epictetus -
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.
William Gibson