John Tiffany Quotes
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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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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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
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People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.
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'Peter Pan' makes 'Black Watch' and 'The Bacchae' look like a walk in the park.
