Nicholas Thorburn Quotes
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Music is about the performance.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
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The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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Almost everyone agrees that corporate tax rates need to be cut because of global competition. Companies should not be able to stash earnings overseas tax-free.
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For Jewish people, salmon has a special meaning, not just because it's a flavor we've had all along our diaspora. Salmon also have this special return-to-their-roots desire. At the end of their lives, salmon try to swim back to when they were born. Even if they can't, they have this obsession. We as diaspora people love that a lot about salmon.
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I strive to be my best every time I go out, and that's very stressful. After a while of doing that... it's nice to just take a deep breath, sit on a tractor.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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I've been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.
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I just think if you're gonna play a show you should try and look nice.
