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.
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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.
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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.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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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.
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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.
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In addition we also hire many senior citizens.
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I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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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.
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I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
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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.
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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.
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I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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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.
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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
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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!'
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I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.
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The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
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Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.
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You run over a part of yourself when you run over something that has such a place in your heart.
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When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.
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It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.
