Clive Thompson Quotes

The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'

Clive Thompson

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With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

John Burnside

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I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.

John Glenn

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We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

Andrea Riseborough

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One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.

John Mellencamp

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When we were younger and first starting out in Australia, we found that we sold more records by word of mouth because we were playing the bars, clubs, and small places and building a following. And as we got bigger, we still relied a lot on word of mouth.

Angus Young

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My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

Jeff Foxworthy

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Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

John S. Watson

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The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Karr

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That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Steven Squyres

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When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

Tommy Shaw

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The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

Rose George

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I love 'The Wire'. I can't think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love 'Doctor Who' and 'Get Smart'.

Lisa Lutz

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