Ray Kurzweil Quotes
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.
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Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
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I loved the role [of John Wick]. I loved the action. I loved all the new characters. The world expands into the Underworld. It's getting bigger. Yeah, it was a really great experience [in John Wick 2].
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.
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I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.
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We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
