Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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I'm a huge 'SK-II' person. I'm their Malaysian spokesperson. But I truly love their products - it's not just something that I endorse. I always moisturize with the SK-II Essential Power Rich Cream.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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My version of makeup is a really intense skin regimen. I just think it's a healthier way to look at beauty.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.
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I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.
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They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.
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You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
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In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.
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I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
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When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.
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Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.
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I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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The most important thing in art is taste.
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
