K. Eric Drexler Quotes
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
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If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.