Alex Pentland Quotes
Cooperation is just as important and just as prevalent in human society as competition.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
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I'm a gun owner.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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Not a single thing do I remember from the first trip but this: the sense of the place, the savor of the genie-soul of the place which every place has or else is not a place...there it is as big as life, the genie-soul of the place which, wherever you go, you must meet and master first thing or be met and mastered. (4.3).
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
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There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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The older I get, the less I remember.
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That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
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I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
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Cooperation is just as important and just as prevalent in human society as competition.
