W. Daniel Hillis Quotes

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

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• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Remember
  • Victory

• 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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Brain

• We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Win

• And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Wedding

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Work
  • Lazy
  • Someone

• 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.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Up
  • Death
  • Die

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Why
  • Feeling
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Wife

• 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.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Black
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Back
  • Blur

• I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Years
  • Old
  • Known

• Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Time

• Despite the unquestionable greatness of the Anglo-Saxon genius, it is impossible not to see that the laws of revolutions are least understood precisely in the Anglo-Saxon countries.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Greatness

• Desde que yo solo sé qué me sucede, no me sucede nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Commitment
  • Endurance

• I've got that hands-on experience with federal judges and how important it is to have judges like Neil Gorsuch, who will take a rule-of-law approach to the decision-making process. I think he's eminently qualified.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Law

• Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

  

  William Shawn
  • Believe
  • English
  • Language

• Intercourse is a world that moves through the sexed world of dominance and submission. It moves in descending circles, not in a straight line, and as in a vortex each spiral goes down deeper.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • World

• Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word,-howe'erWe promise, hope, believe,-there breathes despair.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Promise

• If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing. I can't see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I'm contractually obligated to do.

  

  Chris Evans

• The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
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