David Smith Quotes
The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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You don't have to show a lot of skin to be beautiful.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
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There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness
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The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
