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Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.
Dermot Mulroney
Future
Time
Made
Predict
Every
Every Time
Else
Out
Something
Something Else
Habit
Gotten
Trying
Happened
Hollywood
Plan
Acting
Acting Career
Career
Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.
Diana Rigg
Women
Will
Predict
Everything
True
Most
Tragedies
Dictate
Greek
Gods
Predetermined
Happen
Them
Fates
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.
Douglas Rushkoff
History
Better
Digital
Sense
Predict
Universe
Market
Our
Sold
Guide
Futures
Networking
Likes
Narrative
Snapshot
Friends
Itself
Personal
Current
Being
Order
Information
Social
Succeeded
Product
Graph
Moment
Researchers
Profile
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
Edmund Phelps
Knowledge
Change
Better
Simple
Economics
Predict
Consequences
Our
Cases
Examples
Simplest
Global
Global Warming
Climate
Climate Change
Which
Warming
Us
Full
Show
Less
Actions
Level
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Elon Musk
Predict
Difficult
Software
Our
Case
Only
Like
Read
Understand
Errors
Very
Trying
Going
Riddled
Code
It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.
Emily Blunt
You
Justice
Predict
Think
Market
Striving
Distracted
Worthy
Hopefully
Only
Like
Make
Sort
Because
Done
Going
Anymore
Meat
Whole
Awards
Film
Why
Thing
You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Emma Donoghue
Success
You
Predict
Aim
Way
Possibly
Only
Well
Literary
Cannot
Your
Thing
The head of the hurricane research division, Hugh Willoughby, told me that hurricanologists can predict the behavior of storms if those storms behave predictably.
Erik Larson
Me
Behavior
Predict
Research
Those
Hurricane
Division
Head
Behave
Hugh
Storms
There's quite a bit of evidence that even professionals don't show any ability to pick stocks or to predict market rollbacks. Most of the people we identify as skilled based on returns have probably just been lucky.
Eugene Fama
People
Predict
Market
Bit
Evidence
Ability
Pick
Most
Identify
Returns
Been
Stocks
Any
Quite
Quite A Bit
Just
Skilled
Show
Lucky
Even
Professionals
Based
You can only predict things after they have happened.
Eugene Ionesco
You
Predict
Only
After
Happened
Things
In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
Evgeny Morozov
World
Impossible
Three
Google
Predict
Our
Consistently
Restaurants
Go
Short
Where
Choices
Scoring a goal is the best thing in the world because it's the only thing you can't control or predict.
Glenn Murray
Best
You
World
Control
Predict
Only
Because
Goal
Scoring
The Only Thing
Thing
Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.
Greg MacGillivray
Relationship
Change
Will
Ocean
Predict
Our
More
Scientists
Fish
Left
Sea
Large
Marine
You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'
Haley Bennett
Time
Character
You
Try
Girl
Sit
Predict
Drawn
Kind
Hot
Like
Mess
Read
Train
Going
Want
Next
Play
Here
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
Henri Poincare
Situation
Predict
Say
Approximation
Laws
Had
Governed
Been
Same
Predicted
Succeeding
Us
Require
Should
Phenomenon
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
Henri Poincare
Nature
Situation
Predict
Universe
Exactly
Laws
Could
Knew
Same
Succeeding
Moment
Initial
I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
Ilya Yashin
Predict
Freely
Leave
Whether
Here
Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.
Ivana Milicevic
Crazy
You
Women
Mother
Girl
Seen
Party
Become
Past
Whatever
Predict
Baby
Changes
Had
Over
Were
Just
Different
Them
Then
Who
Whole
Even
Different Thing
Thing
Nightmare
But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
James Carville
Predict
Rather
Affect
I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.
James Gray
Love
Great
You
Hate
People
Ego
Will
Predict
Everyone
Tell
Hoping
Never
Learned
How
Happen
To Love
Act
Film
The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.
James Vincent McMorrow
People
Will
Predict
Respond
Risky
Idea
Trying
Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.
Janet Yellen
Food
Inflation
Predict
Energy
Other
Changes
Distinguish
Enter
Total
Prices
Between
Goods
Models
Movements
Which
Commonly
Energy Prices
Used
Describe
Services
Core
Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because monetary policy will need to respond to whatever disturbances may buffet the economy.
Janet Yellen
Time
Will
Whatever
Predict
Our
Respond
Evolve
Ability
Rate
Federal
Over
Economy
Buffet
Policy
Because
Limited
How
Quite
May
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Funds
Need
As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.
Jay Samit
Success
Future
Financial
Entrepreneur
Opportunity
Trend
Predict
Every
Way
Those
Easier
Out
Data
Through
Investor
Accurately
Hang
Much
Next
Creating
Who
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Future
Science
Hate
First
Past
Predict
Biology
Possible
Observational
Principles
Been
In The Past
Things
When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.
Jesse Eisenberg
You
People
World
Impossible
Will
Predict
Think
Other
Consider
Something
Never
Like
Greatest
How
Greatest Thing
Movie
Might
Acting
Agree
Even
Thing
Received
Reception
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