Ken MacLeod Quotes
It saddened him that military technology was so much more advanced than he’d ever imagined.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.
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New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.
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When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.
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It saddened him that military technology was so much more advanced than he’d ever imagined.
