Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
Hale Irwin -
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
Abraham Polonsky -
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.
Bat for Lashes -
I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
Fantasia Barrino -
Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
Patrick Wilson
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
Tanya Roberts -
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.
Ed Sheeran -
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
Bashar al-Assad -
Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken -
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
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I care about my quality of life and money.
Paula Creamer -
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.
Matt Drudge -
I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.
Alistair Brownlee -
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
Huey Lewis Huey Lewis -
The Dardenne brothers do a movie almost every year, and they put everything together to have a comfort.
Marion Cotillard -
I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.' You didn't realize there was a restaurant behind the door.
Charlie Trotter
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It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.
David Mamet -
The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.
C. G. Weeramantry -
I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!
Bill Gates -
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.
Jeff Bridges -
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
Douglas Hofstadter