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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I think, because of the lack of guaranteed contracts in the league, there's hesitancy to speaking your minds at times. But I feel like there could be a movement beginning where guys are feeling a little more comfortable talking about things that are important to them.
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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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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
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My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.
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Thom's a really great guitarist. He plays terrific rhythm, but he doesn't like to talk about it because he thinks he sounds like Brian May. He grew up with Queen. There were times when we've been competitive, but we've got this really nice situation where if one guitarist doesn't play in a song, we're okay with it. We can really chill out and enjoy it.
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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
