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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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten
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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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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
Rachael Taylor
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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.
Haruki Murakami
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I like romanticizing romance.
Ansel Elgort
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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William Gibson
