James Gleick Quotes
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get that beat, I'm going to rap the best verse I ever dropped - even if it's his worst beat.
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Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.
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There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
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It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.
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Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.
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With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
