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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
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You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
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I make war on the living, not the dead.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
