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Rodney Brooks Quotes

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: australian
Birth: December 30, 1954

Topics

Good Mathematics Weird Lottery Head

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

Me Influence Win Direction Friends

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Long Ask Where Us Begins Happens

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.

Stellan Skarsgard

Dreams Character Preparation Way Who

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Work Morning Try Little Anything

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

Family Lonely American Horror Way

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Friendship Friend Impossible Lose Us

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

President Military Responsible Single

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

Growing Up Back Early Growing Movies

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Live Person Never Anything Known

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

Power You Cozy See Turn United

I am very much a family man.

Family Man I Am Family Man Much Am

In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe.

Courtney A. Kemp

College Listening Theatre Black Know

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