Richard K. Morgan Quotes
Culture is like a smog. To live
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated.
Richard K. Morgan
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
Ed Gillespie
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
Maggie Smith
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
D. A. Pennebaker
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel
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When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'
Jeff Bewkes
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
Elizabeth Berg
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People will still recognize me and say, 'You'll shoot your eye out!'
Peter Billingsley
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Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.
Donald Norman
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There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
Maria Sharapova
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That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.
Chester Brown
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These days, I live on the grid – primarily because of medical issues. But I think that it would be hypocritical for a writer to condemn our surveillance culture and then appear on the Charlie Rose show to blather about personal details. Focusing on a writer’s life undermines the power of that writer’s ideas.
John Twelve Hawks
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Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.
Barack Obama
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
Larry Wilmore
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With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.
Justin Scott
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Culture is like a smog. To live
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated.
Richard K. Morgan
