Brian Christian Quotes
Computers can only do one thing: math. Fortunately for them, a shockingly high percentage of life can be translated into math...
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
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My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
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How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
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You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
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After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.
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Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
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I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
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Computers can only do one thing: math. Fortunately for them, a shockingly high percentage of life can be translated into math...
