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13 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“I think I advised someone when I was at Wired to accept to do some things that they were not inclined to do.”
02 / belief
“I think maybe the idea of a future that was worn and used and not just streamlined — I think that that did shift my idea of reality.”
03 / belief
“I think the hardest place to photograph people certainly were in some of the Islamic countries, where women were off-limits, basically, for most of photography, and even where men were shy.”
04 / belief
“There was this sense of the parochial, little, circular, isolated sense of a suburb that is most strong in my mind right now.”
05 / belief
“Institutions — like an educational institution, I think, it would help them — in terms of education — to work on life skills and learning how to cultivate good habits versus bad habits, trying to guide people with heuristics.”
06 / belief
“I think a good way to pay attention to advice is to encapsulate it in some way that you can remember and to remind yourself.”
07 / belief
“I think minimizing your regrets is a good thing, and most regrets that people have are from things that they — not from things that they did, but from things that they didn’t do.”
08 / belief
“The last thing, and I have to say this very cautiously — but I have been deciding that I think the Civil War was a mistake. That we should have — we, the Union, should have left the South to secede, if the majority of people who were voting had voted for it, and that the right of the Union to enforce that Union, I think, was a mistake.”
09 / belief
“I would say that’s one place you might be looking for things that could happen kind of suddenly, even though the research has been going on for decades.”
10 / belief
“In my own observation, I think he’s working very hard to deal with the responsibility that great power comes from.”
11 / belief
“A piece of advice that I would be hesitant to talk about is — here’s one: I think you should have as many kids as you possibly can.”
12 / belief
“Had there been at that time a gap year or internships, I would have done that, and that’s what I needed, and I would have gone back, I suspect.”
13 / belief
“I think there’s a commonality that we all share fundamentally, more than ever, at the base level of our genetic bodies and basic human needs.”