Miguel Nicolelis Quotes
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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Zaandam is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time.
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How far you are I just don't know The distance I'm willing to go I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky Hoping for some kind of sign
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And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.
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Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
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There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but also their ability to send English people outside. So they're very brain circulation-oriented, and I do hope, even with Brexit, they will keep this asset they have.
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Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.
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We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.
