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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I've had emotional experiences in VR that I haven't been able to have in two-dimensional experiences.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
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Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station.
