Clive Thompson Quotes
We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place.
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I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
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People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.
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Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
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We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.
