Jason Silva Quotes
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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I don't really go out at all.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.
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If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
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Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
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Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
