Plutarch Quotes
'I will show,' said Agesilaus, 'that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.'
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.
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As a child I always loved traditional Korean masked dances. There is something magical about a mask because we all wear or hide behind a metaphoric mask, and ultimately underneath this metaphor is our true vulnerable core. I think we all want to reveal ourselves but can only do so when we feel we are safe.
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I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
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'I will show,' said Agesilaus, 'that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places.'
