Ethan Suplee Quotes
I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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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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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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I gain a lot of confidence through study.
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Christians are made, not born.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.
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Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.
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I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
