Geoffrey Hinton Quotes
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.
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I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.
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Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist
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I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
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True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.
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Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.
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Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.
