Ken MacLeod Quotes
Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.
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It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
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Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.
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An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind
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Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.
