Alex Garland Quotes

It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

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• I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Information
  • Patient
  • Protected

• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • English
  • Intelligence

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • May
  • Trust

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Father
  • Sad

• In addition we also hire many senior citizens.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Senior
  • Senior Citizens

• I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Always
  • Find
  • I Can

• I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People
  • Always
  • Labels

• I talk about millennials with a healthy dose of humility, as I'm a card-carrying member of Generation X. But I have daily interaction with young people at Dana Perino & Co., through my Minute Mentoring organization, with digital friends on social media, and especially at Fox News.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Daily

• I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • Say
  • Achieve

• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Country
  • Remember
  • War

• Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Job
  • Game
  • Worry

• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • First
  • Wait
  • Second

• I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • God
  • Catholic

• Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Day

• Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Power
  • Freedom

• Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Television
  • Show
  • Directing

• Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God.

  

  Esme Wynne-Tyson
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Churches

• I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.

  

  Leelee Sobieski
  • Life
  • Real

• It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

  

  Alex Garland