Nick Bostrom Quotes
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
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I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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I feel like I need to continuously keep evolving and moving.
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You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
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I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.
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I have very vivid memories of my parents talking about Nixon, my mom watching Watergate on the black-and-white set in the living room. The mayor at the time in Philadelphia was a guy named Frank Rizzo - a Democrat, a real bully, a racist.
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We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.
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I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.
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When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.
