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
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
Sam Wyly
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
Gaby Hoffmann
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
Indra Devi
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
Viggo Mortensen
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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.
Sally Mann
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
Damon Albarn
Gorillaz
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.'
Omar Sy
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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.
Kate Adie
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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.'
Olivia Munn
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If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
Adam Driver
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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.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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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.
Sabrina Carpenter
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TV has the unique opportunity to take musicals, live events, so it has that feeling and excitement and spontaneity, but still has a camera between you and what you are watching.
Marc Platt
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Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.
Charles Dickens
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
Hamilton Jordan
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I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
Shonda Rhimes
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Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
Ray Kurzweil
