William Gibson Quotes

I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

William Gibson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A structured design approach can heighten the hit rate in the fuzzy front end of innovation processes in public and private sectors.

Jens Martin Skibsted

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Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

Maureen Reagan

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You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

Steve Perry

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You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.

Michelle Phillips

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So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

Judith Tarr

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This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.

Chris Martin

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I saw 'Starbuck' before I ever knew I would be involved in 'Delivery Man,' but I liked it, and then a couple of months went by, and I really knew I wanted to audition for it when it became available.

Cobie Smulders

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In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.

Claire Messud

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I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

Brian Chesky

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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Anne Sullivan

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