Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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Bragging just sounds good, man.
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It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
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At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.
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I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.
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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
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If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
