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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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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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.
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Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
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By purchasing and holding large amounts of Treasury securities and MBS, we put additional downward pressure on term premiums and so on long-term rates.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
