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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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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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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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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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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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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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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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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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 don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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About Pontus there are some creatures of such an extempore being that the whole term of their life is confined within the space of a day; for they are brought forth in the morning, are in the prime of their existence at noon, grow old at night, and then die.
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He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.
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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?
