Chauncey Wright Quotes
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.
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I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.
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I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
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Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
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Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.' Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.
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In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.
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The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.
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If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
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I have a simple, childlike view of life, and I want to keep it. That's why I never got into that Beverly Hills world. So many pretentious people. They just aren't real.
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Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think.
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I've always used a mallet putter on tour. I get too much face rotation with a blade.
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Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.
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If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.
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Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.
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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
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We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.
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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
