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Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

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• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Cutting

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Feel
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sports
  • Really
  • Shakespeare

• Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • You
  • Living
  • Realize

• Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Bear

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Funny
  • Humor

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

  

  Edmund White
  • Home
  • She
  • Friends

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Time

• After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

  

  John Sununu
  • Question

• My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Time
  • Smile
  • Grandmother

• I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.

  

  Jason Dohring
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • Help
  • Eyes

• Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
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