Rana el Kaliouby Quotes
I am a firm believer that transparency goes hand in hand with collective intelligence.
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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You are just your intelligence.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.
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Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
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The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
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Sonic Youth was a collective. There's something fantastic about the idea of making music is a social activity.
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
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I'm certainly not a workaholic.
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Newfoundlanders, what are we? We're slobbering idiots, slack-jawed simpletons, rustic fish billies living in Dogpatch-on-the-rocks, lower than lower Slobovians, the laughing stock and 'white trash' of Canada.
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I am a firm believer that transparency goes hand in hand with collective intelligence.
