Bob Riley Quotes
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.
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Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.
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I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure job, I don't need a wide readership to survive. I'm a participant in the indirect economy, what sociological critic Pierre Bourdieu would call the "economic world reversed." I get "paid" by writing whatever I choose. That's a pretty good position to be in, but I don't pretend for a moment that it is not a privileged one.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
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Fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.
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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
