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.
Tab Hunter
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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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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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.
Rachel Zoe
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
J. J. Abrams
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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.
Hanya Yanagihara
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The Melvins are grunge.
Adam Jones
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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.
Irving Thalberg
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
Adam Lambert
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
Tamra Davis
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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.
Lance Henriksen
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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.
Kate Winslet
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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.
J. William Fulbright
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'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.
Maisie Williams
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
Karl Marx
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.
Ed Robertson
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I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
Ben Shahn
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You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
Joe Biden
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TV shows and movies are a rare form of atemporality, and in an ever-changing, always-on world, spoilers feel irrefutable - sheer access to them gives the illusion of control.
Jenna Wortham
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Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
Jose Maria Aznar
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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.
Nick Bostrom