Kenneth L. Pike Quotes
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
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When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how 'important' it is?
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We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.
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If someone in going to die anyway without an operation, then you have nothing to lose by trying.
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They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in.
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Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.
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I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.
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My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.
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There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.
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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
