William Gibson Quotes
I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.
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There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
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My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it was a political satire show. It started on Internet by three, four-minute episodes, and then it evolved into a live show in a theater, which was something that was unprecedented in the Arab world.
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Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
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You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.
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Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.
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There's always gonna be setbacks; there's always gonna be knockdowns. There's always gonna be people telling you, 'Hey, you suck!'
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I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.
