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 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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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
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The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
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Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
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I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.
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I just think if you're gonna play a show you should try and look nice.
