J. J. Abrams Quotes
I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
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Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
