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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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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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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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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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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There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
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It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.
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Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
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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.
