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“We don't have a whole lot of people living hand-to-mouth in the Writers Guild, we get paid really well, and a lot of the things we fought for, in my case, I can negotiate. I can negotiate higher DVD rates or anything I want, it's not going to be a minimum basic agreement. But I do think it was important to stand up to them. I do think that we got things in the deal that we wouldn't have gotten had we not stood up to them.”
Source : Source: deadline.com
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“If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxury of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!”
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“Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.”
Source : "Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians". www.lesswrong.com. April 21, 2011.
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“My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.”
Source : Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America
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“I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't.”
Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
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“The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.”
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“The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.”
Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18