Marvin Minsky Quotes
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a book that I really, really loved, and I said, 'I'd love to be a part of this.' And they made it clear that that was not going to be possible - for no particular reason other than that there was just no part for a black person.
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It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.
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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
