Norbert Wiener Quotes
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.
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I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
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In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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Many graduates, moving often in the first years of their post-college life, simply forget to update their addresses with Harvard, and so bills go unanswered and uncollected. This is called a 'technical default.'
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I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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The science of control and communication in the animal and the machine
