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.

Ken MacLeod

• Alone
• Responsibility
• Justice
• Mercy

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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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• It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

  

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• …all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood

  

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• During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

  

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• No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

  

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• I can let the team do the talking for me.

  

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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.

  

  Ken MacLeod
  • Alone
  • Responsibility
  • Justice