Neal Stephenson Quotes
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
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I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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I had a career. His name was Ike.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.
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Listening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab world against us, isolated us from Europe, and fulfilled to the letter bin Laden's prophecy as to what we were about.
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I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.
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Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.
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You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.
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Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.
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Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of DREAMers to his ruthless ramp-up of immigration raids and the callous termination of protections for Haitians and Salvadorans who fled natural disaster and violence.
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Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
