Joel Edgerton Quotes
Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.
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Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
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I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I've found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
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Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.
