William Gibson Quotes
I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
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Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked about putting America back to work, blacks should have said yes, but they didn't. They were so preoccupied with affirmative action that they didn't provide the kind of leadership that would help some of the other progressive folks. Only now are black leaders beginning to realize the impact of economic issues.
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We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.
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People dance at any age.
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I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.
