"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"
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"Missing out on some opportunity never bothers us. What's wrong with someone getting a little richer than you? It's crazy to worry about this."
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"Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them."
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"As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons."
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"If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us"
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"Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves."
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"None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence."
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"My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this."
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"I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it."
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"When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'."
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"That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have."
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"My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford."
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"Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty."
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"A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are."
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"If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things."
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"And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate."
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"I can't worry about what other people say."
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"A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt."
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"I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything."
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"Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear."
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