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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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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Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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Men can't bear to see women cry.
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One should steal only where one cannot rob.
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We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?
