Ken MacLeod Quotes
'Anyway...I find what you write interesting.''That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.'
Ken MacLeod
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
Ed Rendell
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
Maceo Parker
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry Commoner
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Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.
Jeff Shaara
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I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
Marian Keyes
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Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.
Peter Thiel
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There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women.
Lane Kirkland
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'Anyway...I find what you write interesting.''That’s what people usually say when they disagree with it.'
Ken MacLeod