Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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Very ugly things were said about me.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
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Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
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I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
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Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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Our ego seeks to understand everything. It wants all the answers. Part of what destroys the ego and connects us with the light is doing things that absolutely don't make any sense. If we want something beyond logic, like a miracle, we have to do something that is beyond logic.
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Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 2 : Struggle, CP 5.51