Neal Stephenson Quotes
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
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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.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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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.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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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.
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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.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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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.
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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.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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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.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.
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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
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Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
