Esther Dyson Quotes
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.
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The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading list for me right now? What is this carton of milk? Will you tell me how many calories are in five and half Gummi Bears? Why are there birds in the air right now? Why is the sky so blue? Can I get the home phone number of the school district supervisor? You know I was in Basic Instinct, right?
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Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present. One form of exposure treatment is virtual-reality therapy in which veterans wear high-tech goggles that make it possible to refight the battle of Fallujah in lifelike detail. As far as I know, the US Marines performed very well in combat. The problem is that they cannot tolerate being home. Recent studies of Australian combat veterans show that their brains are rewired to be alert for emergencies, at the expense of being focused on the small details of everyday life.43 (We’ll learn more about this in chapter 19, on neurofeedback.) More than virtual-reality therapy, traumatized patients need “real world” therapy, which helps them to feel as alive when walking through the local supermarket or playing with their kids as they did in the streets of Baghdad.
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The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
