Ray Kurzweil Quotes

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Ray Kurzweil

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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.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Kind
  • Style

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • School
  • History
  • Always

• Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Look
  • Economics
  • Alternative

• 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.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
  • Always
  • Young

• War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Difficult
  • Risks

• 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.'

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • She
  • Man

• Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Writing
  • Military
  • Warrior

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Storm
  • Grit

• I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Song
  • Relationship
  • Feelings

• Pornography is used in rape - to plan it, to execute it, to choreograph it, to engender the excitement to commit the act.

  

  Andrea Dworkin

• 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.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Money
  • Why
  • Painting

• People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Game

• I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Book
  • America

• 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.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Small
  • Control
  • Perception

• 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.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Business

• We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Good
  • City
  • Partner

• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Contemporary

• So many cowboys....so little rope.

  

  Sable (wrestler)
  • Littles
  • Cowboy
  • Rope

• The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • God
  • Light

• Young people can't do much with student debt other than try to figure out how to pay it down. They can't take jobs they want. They can't get the credit they would like to start a business. So we're going to refinance it, we're going move people into income-contingent repayment plans, we're going to have a date certain when their obligations end, and I'm not going to let the government harass kids.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Young People
  • Student debt

• Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Opportunity
  • Fiction
  • Happen