Alex Pentland Quotes
We can now watch human organizations evolve on a microsecond-by-microsecond basis and examine all of the interactions among millions of people.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
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I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!
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I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing line which is extremely exciting.
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Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.
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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.
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Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
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I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
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My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.
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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.
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...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid of something that we don't know. ... It's unfortunate that things take a while to progress like this, but it was a great, great victory for equality. I'm proud New York has the balls to stand up for what's right.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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China is illegally dumping steel in the United States and Donald Trump is buying it to build his buildings, putting steelworkers and American steel plants out of business. That's something that I fought against as a senator and that I would have a trade prosecutor to make sure that we don't get taken advantage of by China on steel or anything else.
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A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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I walk into all these organizations, and I'm always puzzled when I realize that people still want to be there. Most people really want to love their organizations. We need that level of commitment ... Yet organizations have done very little to deserve that kind of staying-power.
