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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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.
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In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
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But you can't really know your audiences so well.
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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.
