"One of the fantastic things about Silicon Valley is that it's both the birthplace of technology and it was one of the birthplaces of the counterculture. The Internet and the personal computer were going to be like the communes, where we would all be networked together, and we would be able to achieve this state of global consciousness."

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Franklin Foer

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“I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”
“The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.”

Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”
“Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.”
“That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.”
“I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye. But relatively speaking, there have been peaks and a troughs. One peak was in the 1910s-20s; a major trough was in the 1970s-80s. We are certainly on a peak again, something which began in 1994 with Michael Burlingame's 'The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,' which showed in fabulous detail how many new and untapped sources were available on Lincoln.”

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“Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.”
“What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.”

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