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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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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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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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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'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
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Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
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Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until the next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
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It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form.
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Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
