William Gibson Quotes
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
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Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.
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Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.
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The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.
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America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
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There's violence in my culture [from America's South].
