Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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I'd love to get fat on camera. Wouldn't that be great? I'll tell you what's almost as hard though, getting bulked up, getting that big. Here we are in LA and you see guys walking down the street and everyone looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's really quite grim, if you haven't done it before.
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Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
