Nelson Goodman Quotes
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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I hope I'm always learning something.
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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The likelihood of success drops dramatically when you expand, especially in the services business. And there's a lot of capital that goes into opening another office.
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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Which facts are relevant and which are not relevant to a science will be relative to the current state of development of that science.
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Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
