Cory Doctorow Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.
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For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.
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I don't really exude that 'it' factor.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
