Rana el Kaliouby Quotes
I spent a lot of time wondering about the future. I am curious: when we have AI, and it becomes more mainstream, how is that going to affect the way we communicate with each other?
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.
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It's dangerous to be anybody popular.
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Assurance of hope is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
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Like materialism, consumerism and socialism, transnationalism suffers from the same fatal flaw. It feeds the body and starves the soul. And eventually bored people hear the old calls again.
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I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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How close we could look into a bright future should two, three or many Vietnams flourish throughout the world.
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I spent a lot of time wondering about the future. I am curious: when we have AI, and it becomes more mainstream, how is that going to affect the way we communicate with each other?
