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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In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
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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 do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.
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I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.
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Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.
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There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing.
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We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
