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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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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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
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This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.
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When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building: It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.
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If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.
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Building a computer out of any technology requires a large supply of only two kinds of elements: switches and connectors.
