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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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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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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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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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.
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My private life became public.
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Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it's just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
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Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
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One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
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I'd love to do a real long speech again, eleven minutes dedicated to ME!
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My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
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I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
