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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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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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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I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.
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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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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
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We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?
