Nick Bostrom Quotes
The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
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As a nurturer, I have always lived my life running for others, trying to make everyone happy, even if I often overlooked my own needs. I do it because it makes me happy and fulfilled.
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God is never early and never late.
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Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.
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I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'
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The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
