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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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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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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There were many times that I took such a big hit that I was dazed; I'm not going to lie. I'd see black, but I'm still looking for the puck. Where's the play going? I'm going to keep going. Same thing in figure skating. If I take a hard fall, I'm going to get up, and I'm going to do the next jump.
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I want the attention, I love the attention.
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There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.
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I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas.
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This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
