Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.
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Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
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I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.
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Lord I love my man, tell the world I do I love my man, tell the world I do But when he mistreats me Makes me feel so blue.
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In ancient Greece she would have been a Stoic; in the era of the Reformation, a Calvinist; in King Charles's time, a Puritan; but in this nineteenth century, by the very laws of her being, she is a Reformer.
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You know that answer to that, don’t you. You don’t need me to tell you.
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We JAH people can make it work.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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Herbes... comfort the wearied braine with fragrant smells which yielde a certaine kind of nourishment.
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This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
