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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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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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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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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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff.
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Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.
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I would love to be producing movies, acting in more movies, and doing projects that are Oscar-worthy... have kids, be married, all that, being a normal human being as well, balancing it all out.
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My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
