"As a society, we pick words that are……" — Richard Dooling
"As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us."
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19 Quotes by Richard Dooling
Richard Dooling has 19 quotes on this site.
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Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in…
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Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in…
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At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that…
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Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm…
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Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.
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Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel…
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Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time,…
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And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are…
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As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that…
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I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came…
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I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know,…
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I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making…
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More Afraid Quotes
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
— Dido Armstrong
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
— Jane Austen
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
— Teresa of Avila
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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different…
— Kevin Bacon
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most…
— Abigail Adams
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm…
— Amy Adams
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck…
— Lucille Ball
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
— Lucille Ball
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I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't…
— Brigitte Bardot
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
— Dave Barry
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I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
— Lynda Barry
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