Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes
The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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I grew up in New York.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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I have a Prius, but I'd love to have a white convertible like Richard Gere's in 'American Gigolo.'
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Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
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I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.
