Ken MacLeod Quotes
Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.
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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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When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.
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Anytime you can get odds like that, you've got to take them.
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Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.
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I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
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I am ready to be alone.
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Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.
