Cory Doctorow Quotes
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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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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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.
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When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.
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As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
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If people ask me, 'For you, what is your most important film?' I have a feeling that they all sort of want me to answer with one of the Bergman films. But I cannot choose.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
