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.Douglas Hofstadter
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
Umberto Eco -
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.
Harriet Walter -
I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
Oksana Baiul -
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.
Malcolm X -
I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
Taya Kyle -
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.
Bart Chilton
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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.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot -
I don't hold grudges.
Ian Mcewan -
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
Irwin Redlener -
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Earl Nightingale -
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.
Kate Winslet
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
Campbell Scott -
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Gary Herbert -
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.
Caleb Deschanel -
Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank -
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens -
It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.
Amy Winehouse
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If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.
Neill Blomkamp -
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Arthur Capper -
As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.
Sharon Stone -
Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.
Catherine Ponder -
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.
Douglas Hofstadter