Jason Silva Quotes
Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
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Broadway is really my life.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I'm cranky.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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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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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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I don't like to look typical.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
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You never know what a man-or a woman-has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.
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There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean, Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.
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Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
