Bill Konigsberg Quotes
I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they understood or not. That was just the kind of parents they were.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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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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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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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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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.
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Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?
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One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.
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I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they understood or not. That was just the kind of parents they were.
