Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes
People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
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This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.
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It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.
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People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.
