Neal Stephenson Quotes
He had a sense of irony that ruled his life, made it impossible for him to use his considerable brains in any kind of serious job. Kind of like me.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.
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As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
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If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.
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He had a sense of irony that ruled his life, made it impossible for him to use his considerable brains in any kind of serious job. Kind of like me.
