Rodney Brooks Quotes

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.

Rodney Brooks

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My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

Jeremy Abbott

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I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's something I really cherished.

Jenova Chen

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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

Andrew Young

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Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.

John Lithgow

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That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Stacy Schiff

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I have my way of doing things.

Romario

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Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'

Lucy Dacus

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I know that people don't listen to music much in the way when they'll put on a CD, sit down, have a drink or go on a car journey. People pick and choose and just listen to tracks. But when I make a record, I try to think about it as a 50 minute musical journey, so the mood is very important, as is the sequence of the songs.

Loudon Wainwright III

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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

Lou Holtz

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The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.

Christopher Lee

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That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

Conrad Hall

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