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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?
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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 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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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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In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.
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After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
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Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.
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The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.
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I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was that it took place in the future.
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People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work.
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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?
