William Gibson Quotes
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William Gibson
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
Sallust
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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One shouldn't know the future.
Zubin Mehta
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
Walter Jon Williams
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
Eckhart Tolle
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. James Clark
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
Gary Hume
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
Patrice Leconte
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
Edmund Morgan
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The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'
Rae Carson
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
Karen Black
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
Tammy Duckworth
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Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies.
Daniel Altman
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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Thomas Hobbes
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We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.
Rachel
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If people have nothing to brag about, they brag about their misfortunes.
Arturo Graf
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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William Gibson
