Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I'm a 'Harry Potter' fan, a 'Twilight' fan, and I think 'The Hunger Games' surpasses them all.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
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I'm strictly for Adlai Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you man, he knows the most.
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I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.
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I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
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When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.
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True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
