Crash Quotes - Page 6

• I, like everybody else, have lost most of my pension plan in this economic crash. So I have to. I'm going to call it I Slept With Everyone On Television.

  Margot Kidder

  Economic, Pension

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The problem with natural language processing and the thing that really holds the technology back, is that when it crashes and burns, it's horrific. I think we would be in a position to really take a serious look at it, once two things happen. The interesting thing about a dialogue-choice system is that we've devoted so much into all kinds of other systems for processing, and dialogue choices use zero processing. So suddenly, if you want to have a great natural language processor, you need to dial down your graphics to make it work.

  Greg Zeschuk

  Thinking, Technology, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

  Ovid

  Love, Life, Fall

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• My only crash - I'm a safe driver, though I have scraped a couple of cars parking them - but my only real big crash was on the M11. It was a section with no street lamps, and it was really late at night so it was really dark. I was driving along in the middle lane doing 70mph, not going fast, and then suddenly in the lane in front of me there was this Ford Ka on its roof. I had no chance. I managed to avoid hitting it, but I span the car and hit the barriers. It was a write-off, but fortunately the person who'd been in the Ka was OK and I was fine, which is what matters.

  Russell Kane

  Couple, Real, Dark

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• They're both a bit cavalier about the whole thing at first; more than anything, they seem to think that it's going to be a lot of fun. Which it is, of course, but mostly in the way a plane crash is fun to reminisce about after you survive it.

  Josh Gates

  Fun, Thinking, Reminiscing

  Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an alien spaceship crash-lands on stage midway through the talk, the silence before I begin is the most powerful moment I have. What defines how well I'll do starts with how I use the power of that moment.

  Scott Berkun

  Powerful, Land, Silence

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• It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego
  because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself
  It is like a wave
  it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really
  it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again
  pulls itself together with pride
  towers with pride
  rushes forward into imaginary conquest
  crashes in frustration
  withdraws with remorse and repentance
  pulls itself together with new resolution

  Agnes Martin

  Pride, Frustration, Ego

  Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway (1973). “Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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• You can't take a crash course in serenity.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Peace, Serenity, Courses

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• What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards? One business matra remains embedded in my brain - protect the downside.

  Richard Branson

  Tumbling Down, House, Decision

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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

  Don Williams

  Sea, Wave, Glorious

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• When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Party, Animal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

  Stacey Levine

  Ironic, Creepy, Hilarity

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• Virtually all student debt in the US is now held by the federal government. It would therefore be a relatively simple matter to forgive some, if not all of it. This would enable young people to transition much more easily into creating their own households and families. At the same time, if the government is going to enact a major program of student debt forgiveness, it should be at least equally committed to relieving the heavy mortgage debt burdens still carried by tens of millions of non-affluent households in the aftermath of the 2007-09 financial crash and Great Recession.

  Robert Pollin

  Simple, People, Forgiving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Whether it's one scene or 15 scenes in a film, whether it's the lead or a cameo part, if I don't find it interesting, I tend not to do it. You never really know what it is. It could be a one-scene part. I remember I read the one scene in Crash and was asked to do it. I was like, "Absolutely!" There's no formula for how something has to be. I always try to keep it that way.

  William Fichtner

  Interesting, Trying, Remember

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

  Brian Eno

  Art, Planes, Walks

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• Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

  Jared Diamond

  Motivation, Inspiration, Today

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• Investors are trying to work out some risk premiere that have some correspondence with actual risks. But they don't, they're not, they can't go very far that way, because the actual correspondence isn't really there in a lot of cases. So once people stop believing in these stories, and then the crash can come very, very quickly. They believe that house prices are correctly priced for some time and then suddenly they realized there's no real basis for that. But what is the correct price? We don't know that either. It's just that everything swings.

  Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

  Real, Believe, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think life is simpler than we tend to think. We look for answers and more answers. But there are no answers. Things happen in life, good things and bad. People say, 'Why did it happen to me?' Well, why not? Some people win the lottery, and others die in a car crash. It happens, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe doesn't care what happens to you.

  Nando Parrado

  Good Life, Thinking, Winning

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• We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

  Chris Gethard

  Suicide, People, Judging

  "Manic And Depressed, 'I Didn't Like Who I Was,' Says Comic Chris Gethard". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 24, 2016.

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• Given the nature of market, the chance of a crash is always greater than the chance of an overnight runaway euphoria.

  Jeff Yass

  Chance, Runaway, Given

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• Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

  Laurie Anderson

  Stupid, Technology, Thinking

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• For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.

  Karan Mahajan

  People, Car, Overcoming

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What is fascinating about a place like Los Angeles airport is that it is lots and lots of people, many of whom have saved up all their lives and channeled all of their energies toward coming to the promised land of abundance and plenty - the American Dream. But as soon as they arrive here they get a crash course in the American reality.

  Pico Iyer

  Dream, Reality, Airports

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Teenage, Independent, Bird

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