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 have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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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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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.
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The reason he liked attending rich patients rather than poor ones was the he could exercise his active imagination in prescribing for their ailments.
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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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I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!
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He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
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Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.
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Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
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I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
