William Gibson Quotes

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

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• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Couple

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Worst

• Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Idea

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Natural
  • Dress
  • National

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Happy
  • Thankful

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
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  • End
  • Very

• People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Long
  • Challenge

• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Small
  • Like
  • Greek

• I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

  

  Alison Krauss

• The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Time
  • Important
  • Food

• For humans, the challenge is to unite soul and role, to discover the hidden wholeness that enables us to be in the world who we are in our souls, and to act in accordance with our deepest and truest natures.

  

  Andrew Himes
  • Challenge
  • Act
  • Natures

• The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Different
  • Family
  • Society

• Write about what makes you different.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Inspiration

• If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

  

  William Gibson
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