J. Philippe Rushton Quotes
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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My life is not perfect.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.
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Love is never jealous. It's a connection. It's an energy. It's an embodiment.
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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
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I don't want to be a negative piece of barbed wire sitting up in the booth with all the answers. I think that's a turn-off.
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Race differences show up early in life.
