Marvin Minsky Quotes
We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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Flowers are happy things.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
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In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.
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I feel real confidence in working on the stage.
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We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.
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The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.
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Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things.
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As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
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I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.
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Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
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The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
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I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.
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None of us wants to pay more at the pump.
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Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.
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If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.
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We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?
