W. Daniel Hillis Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
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I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.
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I'm an optimist.
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The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
