Neal Stephenson Quotes
Richard’s ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn’t enjoy that last cigarette.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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Le théâtre n'a jamais été en Angleterre qu'une mode des hautes classes ou une débauche du bas peuple.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.
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I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.
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Richard’s ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn’t enjoy that last cigarette.
