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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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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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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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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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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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.
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The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
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I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.
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I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
