Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
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My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
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I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.
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My parents raised me that way: to appreciate what I have and pass it along to others.
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I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
