Douglas Hofstadter Quotes

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Douglas Hofstadter

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• I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • High
  • Like

• Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Way
  • Language
  • Feel

• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fighting

• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Me
  • Know

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Writing
  • Democratic
  • Attitudes

• The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Change
  • Air
  • Politics

• I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Inspired

• In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Way
  • Wall

• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Audience
  • Chemistry
  • Pair

• 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.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • America
  • Political
  • Fate

• I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • La Castellane
  • Marseille

• 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.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Artist

• It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Bad
  • Two
  • Sides

• Catch then, O! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short Summer - man a flower, He dies - alas! how soon he dies!

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Summer
  • Flower

• Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Today

• When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Friend
  • Marry
  • Darling

• This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter