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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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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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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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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.
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You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.
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I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
