Charles Babbage Quotes
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.
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I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.
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I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.
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I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.
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I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
