Ray Kurzweil Quotes
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
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The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
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I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.
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All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
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If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.
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WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.
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It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
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So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.
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It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.
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What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
