Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
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I care about my quality of life and money.
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As soon as 'Hide Away' came out, it was like everyone knew who I was, and I started getting all this attention. It was hard to get used to at first. I just remember that I suddenly couldn't walk down the hallways without hearing a classmate or teacher playing it - it was unreal!
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A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
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I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.
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I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
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The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.
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We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.
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Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
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I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
