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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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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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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I find it infuriating that in this industry, size 10 and above is defined as 'plus size,' especially when the average dress size in the U.K. is a 16.
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I want to extend my career for as long as I can.
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I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
