William Gibson Quotes
Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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Since Chris Albrecht took over the network, I think more and more people are finding Starz. He made HBO what HBO became, and now he's doing the same thing at Starz.
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Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others.
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The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.
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I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility.
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Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.
