Kevin Kelly Quotes
Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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I have nothing to hide.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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The script is just a blueprint.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
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I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.
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I've had so many letters from people saying I've inspired them to take up riding, and that's an amazing feeling.
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When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.
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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
