Jaron Lanier Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
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I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with these amazing people all the time, and writing represented a new way to meet those people and to tell stories, at the same time, which I've always wanted to do, and to tell jokes. I love comedy, so writing was a way of getting these jokes that I had down on the page.
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Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
