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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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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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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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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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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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.
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'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,'As it hurried down the hill.'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
