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Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 6, 1972

Topics

Life Good Live Happiness Looking Up

I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.

Morning River Blossom You Peaceful

As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me that that's never worked out.

Music Me Find Way Never Write

I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.

Love Dress New York People Dinner

When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.

Responsibility Accountability You

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

Father Mother Brother Teachers Main

I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.

Live Moment Me Reality Phone Stop

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.

Hair Mean She Like Michael Jackson

The Internet is a free and open platform. Everyone has the right to speak. However, compliance with the law is the bottom line that no one should violate.

Law Free Speak Internet Compliance

The first time I wrote a song, I couldn't really believe - 'Can you just do that? You're just allowed?' I never thought about songs on the radio and who wrote them.

Time Song Believe Thought You Never

If we work on it, we can absolutely refuse any notion that suggests that after generations of contributing to this country, being a part of the bones and the marrow, that I'm supposed to be uncomfortable here.

Work Uncomfortable Country Bones

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Change Opportunity Moment World

I'm known to be aggressively early.

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