Ken MacLeod Quotes
All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?
Quotes to Explore
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Every fight is a different experience.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
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I had never really co-written. I thought it was weak or something if I needed to collaborate.
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I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.
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All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?
