Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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The world itself is so full of changes - of negotiations, changes of position, seeing things one way, then another, gauging responses, status changes that can happen in an instant.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
