Brian Christian Quotes
The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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I work, play and do everything in French.
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When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
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I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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In high school, I was an absolute derelict.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Leather and lace is such a sexy combination.
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Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
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I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.
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Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.
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You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. You don't have to be a genius. A dummy like me can figure that out. When I look at my coach of the year candidates, Jamie Dixon is in my top five. Jamie has done a fantastic job. He has lost some heartbreakers on the road, but that's because winning on the road in the Big East is so difficult. They've been able to win at home. And that's the key when you play in a tough league. You better win your home games.
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The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades.
