William Gibson Quotes
Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.
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Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.
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Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
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Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
