Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
-
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
-
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.
-
I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
-
Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
-
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
-
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
-
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.
-
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
-
Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
-
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
-
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
-
I care about my quality of life and money.
-
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!
-
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.
-
I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.
-
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
-
The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.
-
We can go and play in front of 30,000 people and we wouldn't give a shit. We wouldn't be nervous or anything. But if we played in front of our friends we'd be like really embarrassed and really nervous.
-
'Obama Tries to Trash Donald Trump and Turns into a Stuttering Mess' (YouTube video) - 'WATCH: President Obama's Bizarre Stuttering Attack Against Donald Trump', Hannity.com (2 June 2016); 'Watch: Obama ‘Trips Over His Tongue’ When He Goes Off Teleprompter To Bash Trump' by Jack Davis, Western Journalism (2 June 2016).
-
Anyone who says human nature can’t be changed is out of his head. To make it stick, he’s got to define human nature-and he can’t.
-
Love always makes those eloquent that have it.
-
(The animal rights movement) should be supported by all Christians. In an ecological universe, every created entity has intrinsic value because all are subjects as well as objects. As we cover more and more of the earth with our factories/ highways/ towns/parking lots, we annihilate more and more plants and animals.
-
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
