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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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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
I've been engaged a couple times.
Tamron Hall -
I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.
Andy Mineo -
Kenzo were celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they did this big, huge show in Paris and invited back all the models who'd walked for them in the 30-year era. How I found myself in the mix, I'll never know.
Caitriona Balfe -
Leather has a real durability and functionality.
Matthew Williamson -
A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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