"I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible."
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"What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness."
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"Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind."
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"They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."
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"I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality."
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"I try to make myself happy ... because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy, and my shareholders are not happy, and my customers are not happy."
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"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."
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"Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up."
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"The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas."
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"will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty"
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"I like companies that try and break away from the norm."
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"I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am."
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"I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier."
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"I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front."
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"When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know."
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"For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself."
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"When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal."
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"Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away."
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"It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be part of someone else's life. Still, maybe I have been trying to fill in a history or address that amnesia for the recent past. There's so much that's opaque about the ways in which extra layers of global governance have developed since Pax Americana and really accelerated in these last thirty, forty years."
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"If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves."
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