Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
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There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.
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I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.
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Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.
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Do not block the way of inquiry.
