David Eagleman Quotes
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.
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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
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We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
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Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
