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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Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.
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Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
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What, show people the wilderness that belongs to them and make them pay for it? I want them to come, all of them. Had a couple of hikers from Illinois and when they came down someone had written in the dust on their car, "Go home and stay." That's selfish, selfish.
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
