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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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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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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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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
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But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.
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The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.
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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.
