Christopher deCharms Quotes
Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.

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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
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All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
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'Everybody rich and happy.' She smiled. 'Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.'
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To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.
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I did my first contest, and I got third, and my dad was, like, 'Wow, she has potential.' And I went back when I was 7, and I won. And my dad's like, 'All right,' and then he dropped everything.
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Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.