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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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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As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.
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It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
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When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.
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I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
