Ken MacLeod Quotes
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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I'm not graceful.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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Military intervention for reasons of ideology or nation building is not an Eisenhower or Nixon or Reagan tradition. It is not a Republican tradition. It is a Bush II-neocon deformity, an aberration that proved disastrous for the United States and the Middle East.
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The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
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One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.
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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
