Erik Brynjolfsson Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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The world is always terrible.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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Actually my ideal piece of sculpture is a road.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.
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Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.
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Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.
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The heart of science is measurement.
