Brian Christian Quotes
Giving yourself more time to decide about something does not necessarily mean that you'll make a better decision. But it does guarantee that you'll end up considering more factors, more hypotheticals, more pros and cons, and thus risk overfitting.
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One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
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As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
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In proper men there is hidden a light which darkness makes visible. I believe that the hope of mankind is in this buried glory; the spirit which makes true men hang on to the throats of their enemies at the very rim of the grave.
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Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?
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The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home.
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After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, 'We're about to shoot 'Ninja Turtles' in three or four months; do you wanna come in and do a little work on the script?' That was the beginning of a many-month 'Ninja Turtle' odyssey.
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I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.
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I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.
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We were mighty short of infielders in those days
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I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.
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A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.
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Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.
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Giving yourself more time to decide about something does not necessarily mean that you'll make a better decision. But it does guarantee that you'll end up considering more factors, more hypotheticals, more pros and cons, and thus risk overfitting.
