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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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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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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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Prince's manager once told me that I was the only person other than Prince who can recruit from the streets. Which was very flattering.
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My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which I learned connected us to different people and cultures, including my own family's origins in the Arab World and Northern Europe. I understood early that my world was only a small part of a much larger one. That captivated me.
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I love Adele. Natasha Bedingfield is cool, those sort of people.
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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.
