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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• 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.

  

  Ed Asner
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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.

  

  Karlie Kloss
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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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• I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

  

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• One of the great truths of life: I did not do it alone. I had help along the way.

  

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• I'm very interested in foundational narratives.

  

  Ken Liu

• You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

  

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  • Heart
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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