Marvin Minsky Quotes
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.
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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
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Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
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None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.
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I'm not trying to say,That I'm smelling of roses, But when will we tire,Of putting shit up our noses.
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I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.
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Self-publishing is fine. But in a world of self-publishing, where everything is about what you get on the back end, there's a serious disincentive from embarking on really important, vital projects.
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Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.
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A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'
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The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.
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Special operations are small, highly specialized. They do amazing work when they're put into the fight, but it's a limited resource. And so if we become overly dependent on an organization that's designed for a very specific mission and expect them to solve all problems around the world, you're naturally going to overextend it.
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You would never see anyone go to a restaurant in Milan wearing a jumpsuit!
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The teams that worked on the innovative distribution of 'The Interview' are just a few of the many that put in long hours over our studio holiday to ensure business continuity, rebuild our systems, and protect our company.
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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
