Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
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I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.
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Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
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Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.
