Pat Cadigan Quotes
Truth and information are not the same thing! And neither are reality and state of existence!
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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Bring out the eyes.
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I try to avoid giving advice.
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I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.
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You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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I don't think you're weak," Jared said. "I want to guard you because you are important to me. Because you are - God, this is going to sound so stupid, I can never think of a way to say it - you are precious. I can never think of how to describe the value you have to me, because all the words for value suggest that you belong to me, and you don't.
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Truth and information are not the same thing! And neither are reality and state of existence!
