Marvin Minsky Quotes
We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
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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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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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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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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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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'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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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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Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.
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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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When the van comes to pick me up it's great because as soon as we get to the airport I know we are going to have a laugh. As soon as the shows start, we become a unit, one of four people. Within that unit I feel safe.
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I just have so few sunrises left, and I want to be happy.
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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
