Neil Harbisson Quotes
The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
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Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.
