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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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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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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No great thing is created suddenly.
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The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.
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Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.
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I'm more of a tomboy - I fall into the jeans-and-a-T-shirt style, for sure - but I have a girlie side to me.
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I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
