Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I don't hold grudges.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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Sanctions should be reserved, if we think international, for extremely serious situations.
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
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I consider myself a social justice person.
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I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.
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I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.
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The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.
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There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
