Ray Kurzweil Quotes
A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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Government is not show business.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.
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It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.
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Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
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Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.
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A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
