William Gibson Quotes
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby.That would be too demanding.I'm just talkin' bout two lonely peopleWho might reach a little understanding.I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heavenwith whether we're wrong or we're right.I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out,I'm just talkin' bout tonight.
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I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.
