Neal Stephenson Quotes
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Neal Stephenson
Quotes to Explore
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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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Getting the care for a common cold, migraine, or high blood pressure can and should be easy, whether one has an insurance card or not.
Danny K. Davis
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
Maggie Rowe
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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
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For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.
Debi Mazar
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I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.
J. J. Abrams
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Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Neal Stephenson
