Claude Shannon Quotes
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.
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I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.
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I don't like to look a man in the eye.
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I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
