Timothy Morton Quotes

My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 'Cultures of Energy Podcast' is so good!

Timothy Morton

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There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

Joe Lhota

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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

John Osborne

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Jean Rostand

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Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

Alvar Aalto

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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Sophocles

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I love rap, and I love the angst of hardcore music and punk rock.

Sonny Sandoval

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Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

Robin Wright

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Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Rupert Everett

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Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn't conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.

Mike Cernovich

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I want to be the best player in the history of Egyptian football.

Mohamed Salah

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I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

Jason Calacanis

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