Neal Stephenson Quotes
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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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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To be rude to someone is not my nature.
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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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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
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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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It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.
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Always wear a smile sometime during the day - it makes you feel happier and look younger.
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Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.
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When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
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With how huge Yes was, especially in the '70s and '80s, as a touring band and actually playing at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to 130,000 people, which is the biggest-paying show ever in rock history, you would think we'd done enough for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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The precious moments of life are too rare, too valuable to be forgotten when they have passed; we should hoard them as a miser hoards his gold, and bring them to light and rejoice over them often. We should all of us have a treasury of happy memories to sustain us when life is unbearably cruel, to brighten the gloom a little, to be stars shining through the darkness.
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Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
