Ken MacLeod Quotes
I’m sure they’ll come up with all kinds of rationalizations, if the human precedent is anything to go by.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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I come from a long line of sportsmen.
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It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.
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If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
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I’m sure they’ll come up with all kinds of rationalizations, if the human precedent is anything to go by.
