Ray Kurzweil Quotes
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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From caring comes courage.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
