Edna O'Brien Quotes
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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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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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple.
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When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
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Our enemies are our outward consciences.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
