Andy Hobsbawm Quotes
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.
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Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
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The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
