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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
“incredible book”
“Victor Frankel wrote this incredible book man searched for meaning after the Holocaust and he writes different people uh pursue life for for different reasons”— Neri Oxman
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“one of my favorite books of his”
“Dostoevsky said Beauty will save the world in the idiot one of my favorite books of his”— Lex Fridman
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Particle Fever
Mark Levinson (inferred)
“incredible film”
“that quote from this incredible movie I've watched years ago Particle Fever I think it was called documentary about the Large Hadron Collider an incredible film”— Neri Oxman
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The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola
“the best film of all time ... The Godfather is definitely up there”
“what do you think is the best film of all time maybe top three yeah maybe The Godfather Godfather okay The Godfather is is definitely up there”— Neri Oxman
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
“I would watch that film again and again and again it's incredible”
“2001 is up there I would watch that film again and again and again it's incredible the last scene in Odyssey 2001”— Neri Oxman
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Into the Woods
Stephen Sondheim (inferred)
“my favorite Broadway show”
“my favorite Broadway show um to enter and live through it would be into the woods it's not a specific fairy tale”— Neri Oxman
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
“she also brought me a present War and Peace by Tolstoy and meditations by Marcus Aurelius it doesn't get better than that”— Lex Fridman
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
“she also brought me a present War and Peace by Tolstoy and meditations by Marcus Aurelius it doesn't get better than that”— Lex Fridman
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
“like Paula Cole said in The Alchemist when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”— Lex Fridman
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
“when we did the Mandela Pavilion we Read Moby Dick the whiteness of the whale the albino the different the other”— Neri Oxman
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The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
“there's this beautiful line and Sheltering Sky how many times have you seen a full moon and in your life”— Neri Oxman
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