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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The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
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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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In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.
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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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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.
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This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.
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When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day long up in Canada. That was really fun. We were on these back roads with these great cars.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
