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The only wish you expressed, the only thing you ever asked of me in all those months we spent together, was for me to speak to you in Korean.

I've already spent about an hour and a half pre-breathing.

I've spent years pouring through the case files of terrorism prosecutions in the United States, and I've come to the conclusion that the FBI is much better at creating terrorists than it is at catching terrorists.

I've got the family, spent the better part of a day talking with them.

And you've spent weeks and months there talking with them, getting there, and I want to put them on a pedestal, and I said, "You have something that many people have not seen.

I've spent all of my life analyzing what do I look like?

In particular, in my lab in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, I have spent the past decade trying to understand the mystery of how children learn so much from so little so quickly.

I just spent all this time buying this product and now I have to charge before use.

I spent time in jails and brothels, interviewed hundreds of survivors and law enforcement, NGO workers.

I spent many months researching a trafficking case called Global Horizons, involving hundreds of Thai farm workers.

We recognize that there are potential risks and potential for abuse, but personally, having spent many years doing this, I believe that the benefits to humanity from having emotionally intelligent technology far outweigh the potential for misuse.

You take that six billion minutes and you divide it by the average life expectancy of a person, that turns out to be 162 lifetimes spent every day, wasted, just getting from A to B. It's unbelievable.

I spent hours sitting on it in the garden dreaming of my goal.

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, and he spent 50 years of his life underground.

We're in California now, and I figured out the other day that California has spent four billion dollars in convicting 13 people for the death penalty.

But a friend of mine spent four hours wandering around here looking for this restaurant.

I spent a lot of time undoing Richard Meier's aesthetic.

I spent a lot of time thinking if there's a better way, and I think there is: autism-assistive technology.

Every school holiday spent back in the village with my grandmother made me consciously aware of the inequalities this incredible opportunity had created within my own family.

I've spent more than three decades trying to get my head around quantum mechanics.

I spent a few months in a burn unit at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, New Jersey, where I got really great care at every turn, including good palliative care for my pain.

We spent trillions of dollars.

The risks associated with 9/11 will not be measured in terms of lives lost by terror attacks or buildings destroyed or trillions of dollars spent. They'll be measured in terms of the costs of our distraction from critical issues and our inability to get together scientists, technologists, government leaders, at a moment of transformation akin to the beginning of the Renaissance, akin to the beginning of the major transformational eras that have happened on Earth, and start coming up with, if not the right answers, then at least the right questions.

We set the place up, we opened up, we spent months and months renovating this place.

The more time I spent around these people and saw this problem, I thought, what if we could create a community, a place where people could feel like they belonged and that it was OK to do things differently, to take the road less traveled, where that was encouraged, and inspire people to change?

And it's the sad state of most of the people that haven't spent time understanding what matters for them, who keep reaching for something that doesn't mean anything to us, but we're doing it because everyone said we're supposed to.

And I spent months planning this crazy idea.

And I took this platform down to Lake Okeechobee and I spent over a week in the water, wading waist-deep, 9-hour shifts from dawn until dusk, to get one image that I thought might communicate this.

I often spent my days positioned in front of the TV watching Barney reruns.

One out of every five Medicare dollars get spent on Alzheimer's.

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