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- Nov 07, 2020
Just Quotes
On simplicity and things that just come together.
The word 'just' does a lot of work in these quotes, minimizing effort, describing creativity in unexpected places, or downplaying how a career path came about at all. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bob Gates is really emblematic of the modern CIA. He joins it in 1968, just a day before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And, of course, he rises very quickly. In less than six years, he's on the National Security Council staff, at the closing weeks of Richard Nixon's presidency and then on into Gerald Ford.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it's 'Avengers Assemble' or 'Planes' or straight-to-dvd work, it's great.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just an ordinary man.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want everybody to follow the law.
- Programming
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
- Currency
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we all know, the budget decisions which give rise to increased debt are what counts, and the debt is just a by-product of those budget decisions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a nice career. I'm no David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen out there. I'm not an icon. I'm just a working artist.
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- Nov 07, 2020