W. Daniel Hillis Quotes
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
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When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
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Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.
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Building a computer out of any technology requires a large supply of only two kinds of elements: switches and connectors.
