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 apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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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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The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
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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 recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
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Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
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My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.
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Art has to be reflective of our society.
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Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
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I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
