Ray Kurzweil Quotes

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

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• I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Things
  • See
  • Word

• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Break
  • Roles
  • Pictures

• Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Ride

• My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • American
  • Influence

• I would never walk off any show.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Never
  • Show
  • Walk

• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Energy

• Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Stage
  • Therapy

• Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Way
  • Potential

• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Feel
  • Trick

• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Nature
  • Religious
  • Moral

• Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Improvement

• In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.

  

  Kina Grannis
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Every family has that secret. Every family has that thing where you go, 'Shhh, shhh, shhh.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Family

• With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ...There'll be an entrance here... a deranged lunatic here.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Design
  • Homeless

• To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

  

  Esi Edugyan
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Chocolate

• Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Remember
  • War
  • Brain

• A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Music
  • Brain

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Brain
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