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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Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?
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The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
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The science of control and communication in the animal and the machine
