Neal Stephenson Quotes
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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The only person I know, is the person I want to be
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What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.
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I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
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If you play well, win, don't change too much. But when you don't play well, lose, you have to give the opportunity to the other players.
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The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
