Cory Doctorow Quotes
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I love R&B because it got me to where I am today, but at the same time, R&B just doesn't sell.
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I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
