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Ale Quotes
A small, varied set of reflections.
This is a modest, loosely connected collection, grounded mainly in a historical comparison of the scale of wartime scientific effort between two countries. Other entries touch briefly on film ratings and the kinds of scripts actors look for. Related quotes appear in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have a conversation in my phone I could scroll through, I'm not making music.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
The male ego is a terrifying, terrifying thing, you know? If it's shattered, it becomes even more dangerous.
- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020
My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play games in the best way possible, a way that was better than anyone else would have access to. As time went on, it became clear that VR was actually feasible on a large scale at a low cost, and at a quality far beyond what I had been hoping for.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020