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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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 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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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
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I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.
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The U.K.'s relationship with the U.S. has proved strong enough over time to bear the weight of honest disagreement. It does not require unconditional support where our interests or judgements differ.
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
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Science is the storytelling of our time.
