Avi Lewis Quotes
The book and the film This Changes Everything fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.
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Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
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When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
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I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.
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I decided, enough pain. To the lips of their nocturnal happiness I would attach those of my revenge. I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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The book and the film This Changes Everything fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.
