Warren Ellis Quotes
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I've never been a partier.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Cities have unique home-sharing policy needs - a dense, urban city may have different concerns than a historic vacation town or a non-traditional travel destination.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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I live and die with the Chicago Cubs
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
