Christiana Figueres Quotes
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.
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Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
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The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.
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No hables mal de tus males a nadie, que hay culpas de tus males en todos.
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'Super Contra' was the game I fell in love with. I played and beat that game with my mom.
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My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.
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I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.
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I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.
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Faith is hidden household capital.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.
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The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people-almost half of all humanity-to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station.
