William Gibson Quotes

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

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• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

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• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

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• I never was a very good singer.

  

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• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

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• We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

  

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• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

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• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

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• The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

  

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• You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

  

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• There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

  

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• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

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• Let's create a legal system that can work.

  

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• What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

  

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• Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

  

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• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

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• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

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• Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.

  

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• And what is love but a four-letter word for trouble?

  

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• Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

  

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• One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used to argue all the time in the studio, but at the end of the day, we both realized that we were after the same goal, and that was to make great music. And I'm talking about Eazy-E.

  

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• It's not all about getting one guy into the end zone. It's about getting the team into the end zone, putting up points and winning games.

  

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• To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

  

  William Gibson
  • Guy
  • Political
  • Consciousness