Jeff Hawkins Quotes
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
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Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.
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What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
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I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.
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I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
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In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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I will not be silenced or deterred.
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Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.
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Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.
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The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
