William Gibson Quotes

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

William Gibson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 17, 1948

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And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

Robert Mueller

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Jean Rostand

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I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

Trip Hawkins

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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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When I was 16, it was 1988, and my style was a mess. Fur-lined brown suede jacket, paisley shirt, chinos, and Doc Martens. My hair was blow dried into a large quiff. That might sound vaguely cool. It wasn't.

Jason O'Mara

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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.

Dimitri Payet

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I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

Douglas Booth

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Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.

Deadmau5

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When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

Chris Gibson

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In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

Brian Tyree Henry

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For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Philip Yancey

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My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

Peter C. Doherty

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