Neal Stephenson Quotes
'He told us that a lone avout was being pursued by a mob. We saw it as an emergence.'
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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We all have the right to comment about each other.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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You've got to be realistic.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.
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I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream
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'He told us that a lone avout was being pursued by a mob. We saw it as an emergence.'
