William Gibson Quotes
Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
Quotes to Explore
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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People trash talk me.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
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Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.
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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.
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What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.
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Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
