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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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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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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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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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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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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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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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.
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Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
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So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
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A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.
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The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. In WWII, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
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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.
