"I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road."

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Source : "Cars That Drive Themselves". Interview with Jason Spingarn-Koff and Joe Seamans, www.pbs.org. March 28, 2006.

Sebastian Thrun

#Passion Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject.”
“We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.”

Source : David James Duncan (2012). “River Teeth: Stories and Writings”, p.262, Dial Press
“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”
“What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.”
“I've remained a supporter of the Obama administration, even at the height of my ordeal. There's a lot that he could do differently, but so much of what he's tried to do has been blocked by the Republican officeholders. I think that he could have been a much better president with more support. So, I'm still supportive of him.”
“I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude,”

Source : "Fictional character: Kirk Lazarus". "Tropic Thunder", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“There are no big groupie fans or anything.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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