Jason Silva Quotes
We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
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I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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Everyone is going to die.
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Only the young die good.
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In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.
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Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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The most destructive criticism is indifference.
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No worse than a bad cold.
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Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
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I love having my hair blown dry by a stylist and I also truly enjoy being with my friends and family.
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We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.
