Alex Pentland Quotes
We are now coming to realize that human behavior is determined as much by social context as by rational thinking.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.
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He Brendan Bracken had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
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The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
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I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
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I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.
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For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
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Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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You don't write 'God Save The Queen' because you hate the English race, you write a song like that because you love them; and you're fed up with them being mistreated.
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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
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I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
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We are now coming to realize that human behavior is determined as much by social context as by rational thinking.
