Marvin Minsky Quotes

We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?

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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.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Drive
  • Faster
  • Especially

• 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.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Money
  • Thought

• 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?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• Flowers are happy things.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Happy
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Because
  • Got

• I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Play
  • Dance

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Important
  • Growing

• 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.'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • World
  • Long
  • Places

• 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.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Work
  • Think
  • Want

• I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Feel

• We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • Home
  • Child
  • Chapter

• 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.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Science
  • Sea
  • Weather

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Kind

• I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Him

• As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Child
  • Field
  • Playground

• Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He's such a great poet of music.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Life
  • Men
  • Rock

• go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Sleep
  • Summer
  • Warmth

• My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.

  

  Damien Dempsey
  • Song
  • Firsts
  • Conscious

• We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?

  

  Marvin Minsky