Cory Doctorow Quotes

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

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• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
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  • Learn
  • Something

• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  

  Dan Deacon
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  • Never
  • Goal

• I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.

  

  Fleur East
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  • Lunch
  • Now And Then

• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
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  • Long Time

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
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  • Myself
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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

  

  Ed Emberley
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• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
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• Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

  

  T. R. Knight
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  • Hope
  • You

• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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  • Society

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
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  • Time

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
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  • Music
  • Writing

• I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

  

  B. D. Wong
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  • Thinking
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• Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

  

  Max McKeown
  • Fashion
  • Leaving

• This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
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  • Imagination

• In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
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  • Success
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• Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

  

  Cory Doctorow
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