Jason Silva Quotes
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
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Every year I try and challenge myself more and more, whether it be acting or everything I do. I just want to try and be better than the year before.
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It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
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While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.
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I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'
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Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.
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Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
