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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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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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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Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
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You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
