David Deutsch Quotes
Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I'm always trying to do as many different things as I can, just so when one is not doing so hot, maybe the other is still there.
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To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.
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Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
