Marvin Minsky Quotes
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
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The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
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You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you.
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I like statement flats that can take you from day to night.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it in. Unless I make the changeover into playing witches or something, I don't see what career I can have.
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I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
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Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.
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I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
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We should be robustly assisting the Free Syrian Army with equipment and also with training.
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
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Germany and other countries have protested to the U.S. We have to make it clear again and again that millions of jobs in the U.S. depend on trade with the EU.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
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I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.
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When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.
