“I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”
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Melina Marchetta 204
Australian teen writer 1965Related quotes

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”
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This quote was taken from the Synergy's Echoes page ( December, 1991 Houston, Texas, KLOL FM Echoes of Exposure with David Sadoff ).
“Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up.”
Although its fame and iconic status are undisputed, the quip's context is unknown and its specific wording and dating are unclear. According to Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Jelinek himself recalled the quote as "Anytime a linguist leaves the group the recognition rate goes up" and dated it to December 1988 (Wayne, Pennsylvania), further noting that the quote did not appear in the published proceeding, whereas Roger K. Moore gave the wording as "Every time we fire a phonetician/linguist, the performance of our system goes up" and dated it to an IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding workshop held in 1985.
Source: [Jurafsky, Daniel, James H. Martin, 2009, Speech and language processing: an introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition, 2nd, Prentice Hall series in artificial intelligence, Upper Saddle, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 0-13-187321-0, 83]
Source: [Palmer, Martha, Tim Finin, 1990, Report on the Workshop on the Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems, Computational Linguistics, 16, 1, 171–185, http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~finin//papers/acl90.pdf]
Source: [Moore, Roger K., 2005, Results from a Survey of Attendees at ASRU 1997 and 2003, INTERSPEECH-2005, Lisbon, September 4-8, 2005, http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/R.Moore/publications/Results%20from%20a%20Survey%20of%20Attendees%20at%20ASRU%201997%20and%202003.pdf]
“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.”
Source: Blood and Guts in High School (1978)

Day 19: Cultivating Community
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002)
Variant: Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?