Nelson Goodman Quotes
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.Nelson Goodman
Quotes to Explore
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I have selective hearing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
Rachel Zoe
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
Laura Moser -
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
Odette Annable -
A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
Kara DioGuardi -
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens -
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
Jack Kemp -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
Randy Neugebauer -
Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
Magnus Scheving -
I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Pat Brown -
My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
Adam DeVine -
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Karen Black
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
Sammi Hanratty -
My hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed.
Blake Lively -
To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
Jerry Springer -
It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.
Boris Johnson -
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
Nelson Goodman