# Quote — Pat Cadigan, Mindplayers

> Everybody wants to be somebody but nobody wants to be just anybody.

- Author: [Pat Cadigan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan.md)
- Book: [Mindplayers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers.md)
- Page: 13
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Cadigan#Mindplayers_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers/everybody-wants-to-be-somebody

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> Meditation was such a loose term; you can do almost anything mentally and call it meditation.

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> Truth and information are not the same thing!

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