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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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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'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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I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
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I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
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Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.
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Every day I am trying to improve my life.
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Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.
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The science of control and communication in the animal and the machine
