William Gibson Quotes
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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I don't read books.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.
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It took the Fire Brigade a day and a half to secure the remains of the house enough to recover Crew Cut’s body, which was described by Dr Jennifer Vaughan as ‘suffering from crush trauma’ and by Dr Walid as ‘mostly flat’.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.
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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
