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 put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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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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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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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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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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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'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.
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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
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The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
