Marvin Minsky Quotes
We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
Quotes to Explore
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Good comedy is ageless.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
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It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
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In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
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I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
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If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
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As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
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Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.
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I am not that smart.
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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
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We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
