Marvin Minsky Quotes
Changing the states of many agents grossly alters behavior, while changing only a few just perturbs the overall disposition a little.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.
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Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
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Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
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I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.
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Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.
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I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.
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They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
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Changing the states of many agents grossly alters behavior, while changing only a few just perturbs the overall disposition a little.
