William Irwin Thompson Quotes
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I am a Buddhist.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
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The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?
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There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.
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Science is the storytelling of our time.
