Marvin Minsky Quotes
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
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Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
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For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
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I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however, is that I have a steady stream of books coming to the house.
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Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.
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It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'
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An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
