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I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?


Tobey Maguire


#always #complain #end #films #four

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.


Naguib Mahfouz


#comprehension #great #lack #literally #meant

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.


Joseph de Maistre


#complain #desires #despotism #discontented #his

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.


Eric Liu


#also #america #complicated #identifies #identify

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.


Eric Liu


#citizenship #conversation #descending #everyday #feel

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.


Eric Liu


#apple #arresting #because #called #china

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.


Lucy Liu


#cartoons #competing #ever #gets #i

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.


David Lloyd


#back #behind #circumstances #comes #compromise

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.


Harold Lloyd


#considerable #mental #pain #state #trivial

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.


Seth Lloyd


#consists #define #determine #how #information