Neal Stephenson Quotes
Any strategy that involves crossing a valley-accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance-will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.Neal Stephenson
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
Sam Altman -
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
Gail Collins -
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
Yoko Ono -
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen -
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
Dana Boente -
I still have a young attitude.
Pat Morita -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung -
Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
Yoshihiko Noda
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
Gavin Hood -
People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
Sam Altman -
Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Kacey Musgraves -
Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
Yair Lapid -
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson -
I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
Zac Efron
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
Natalie du Toit -
It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?
Charles H. Townes -
My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
If you get thrown off by the fact that I have bleach-blonde hair and tattoos, and listen to rock and roll, gettin' Sammy Hagar, and that's where your premise is going to come from, then you really don't know me well enough to tell me to do anything or really have a position that you should be making an opinion about me.
Guy Fieri -
Any strategy that involves crossing a valley-accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance-will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.
Neal Stephenson