Cenk Uygur Quotes
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.
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When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.'
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If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.
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I didn't just graduate from Stanford with a really good idea and a good dad.
