Ray Kurzweil Quotes
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'
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War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
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Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.
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Well, this man the T.V. interviewer of Jasper Johns, wanted to know why I stopped painting the so-called famous 'Silence of Duchamp'.. ..and he had said it was because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons.. ..But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don't mean to do it.
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People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.
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It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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I don't think of myself as a small receiver, but you can't control what somebody says about you. It hasn't held me back - actually, I think I've changed the perception of smaller receivers.
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Mentorship plays such an important role in business - we know it's a must - and I believe schools should embrace it in a much fuller way.
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At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.
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I need to keep working hard, winning fights, and it will happen. I just hope that I don't get sidestepped for too long.
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To hope and dream is not to ignore the practical. It is to dress it in colors and rainbows.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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I just go out and play golf.
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Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
