K. Eric Drexler Quotes
You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.
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I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work.
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Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.
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Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.
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I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
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You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.
