Jon Oringer Quotes
To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
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A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.
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No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
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To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
