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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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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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'm a New York kid, so when I saw that plane that hit the first building, I suspected it was terrorism - blue sky day.
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Honestly, I'm as rebellious as I used to be and my definition of shaking things up isn't what it used to be.
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It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
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It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
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I can't be as flip as I once was.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.
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The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
