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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
Campbell Scott
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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 -
'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.
Billy Crystal
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Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.
Ann Nocenti -
I don't have to work; I need to work.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Barack Obama -
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
Leon Kass -
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