Geoffrey Hinton Quotes

I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.'

Geoffrey Hinton

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• The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • World
  • American
  • Same

• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Long
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• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Snow

• I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • She
  • Think

• In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Perfect
  • To Be
  • Member

• Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

  

  Alex Berenson

• I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Work
  • Moments
  • Criticism

• People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Up

• I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • People
  • Happy
  • Mother

• The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.

  

  Billy Beane
  • Business
  • Period

• Sunscreen is my number one beauty product that goes on even when I am indoors.

  

  Liz Goldwyn

• We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Business
  • Small
  • Risk

• I have so much respect for what's funny.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Funny
  • Respect

• Currently, we are working to deliver our anti-aging gene therapies to terminally ill people for compassionate care. Although, in the future we think that preventative medicine against aging would begin at a much younger age.

  

  Liz Parrish
  • People
  • Age
  • Future

• In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

  

  Cindy Crawford

• I'm the top rapper in the world.

  

  Future
  • World

• I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive.

  

  Darlene Love
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I like 'Citizen Kane,' I like 'The Godfather,' all the ones that everyone should see, whether you're an actor or not.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Godfather

• My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• At 90, I'm still working a couple of dates a month. My mind is very sharp on the stage, so why not? This may sound corny, but I do it because people - young and old - still come to see me, and they're very enthusiastic about my work. They treat me like the Godfather.

  

  Don Rickles
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

  

  Jacques Audiard
  • Monster
  • Godfather

• We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.

  

  M. Shadows
  • People
  • Night

• I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.'

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • Godfather