Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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My being gay was something of not great interest to me.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.
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My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn't have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing.
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
