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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I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.
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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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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
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Only if you aspire for more will you achieve more.
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We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
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My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
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To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
