Neal Stephenson Quotes
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Neal Stephenson
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
Aaron Swartz
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
Rachel Nichols
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
Malcolm Gladwell
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
Narendra Modi
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
Pamela Meyer
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
Maisie Williams
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
Gabriella Wilde
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
Sally Kellerman
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Dan Buettner
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
Zooey Deschanel
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
Talia Shire
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I want to get faster every year, keep my confidence high, so I can continue dominating my main events and extend my range to other freestyle and medley races.
Chad le Clos
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
Viggo Mortensen
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I need you," he said to her, this woman who'd fought for her own right to live her life free of limits, "to build me some remote detonation devices." Amazing brown eyes shot with blue peering into his as she pressed her nose to his. "You always say the most romantic things.
Nalini Singh
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What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Neal Stephenson
