Noreena Hertz Quotes
Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
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In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it.
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Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as I thought they would. In this case, you can be quite sure that if an actor is untrusting, it's got nothing to do with me or the process.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.
