Neal Stephenson Quotes
Yul had simply launched himself at the guy from some distance away, and body-checked him at full speed, stopping on a dime in midair as he transferred all of his energy into the target. 'Conservation of momentum,' he announced, 'it's not just a good idea-it's the law!'
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.
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I feel like everyone is really craving people to come out. People want - they need - to see that there are people like me playing soccer for the good ol' U.S. of A.
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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
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Yul had simply launched himself at the guy from some distance away, and body-checked him at full speed, stopping on a dime in midair as he transferred all of his energy into the target. 'Conservation of momentum,' he announced, 'it's not just a good idea-it's the law!'
