Jaron Lanier Quotes
My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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Bios are always so dull and boring.
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Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
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You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.