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
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• 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

• Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.

  

  Asa Gray
  • Life
  • Work
  • Animal

• People aren't suckers. Some are, perhaps. But most people inside know when we're being lied to.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • People

• 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

• When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Positive

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

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • Godfather