Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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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.
Gabriel Luna
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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.
Edgard Varese
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
C. L. R. James
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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.
Adam Hamilton
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
Malcolm Boyd
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It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Michel Foucault
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For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.
Haruki Murakami
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You're only as good as your last book.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
Salma Hayek
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I love a lot of high speed turns, turns where you have to push yourself, force yourself to go fast. Then there's something telling your foot to lift off, because it's so fast, and it's impressive when you get that feeling and just drive on.
Jacques Villeneuve
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
Paolo Bacigalupi
