William Gibson Quotes
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.
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I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.
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Time can be an enemy or a friend.
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
