- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
- Nov 07, 2020
Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very fond memories of Basil's Bar. It was an extraordinary place. You would go for a drink and it would be empty except for the bar bore, which was David Bowie.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
You hear a lot of scientists say the same thing. It doesn't have to be a big thing because the thing about being a scientist is even the little things are big things to us.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our weather patterns are mercurial. What you must remember about Great Britain is we have a uniquely temperate climate not shared by any other country in Europe. We can grow plants from every country in the world. The result is 90% of the plants in our gardens are from other parts of the world.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020