Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
This type of paradox is quite characteristic of Zen. It is an attempt to 'break the mind of logic'.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I have a great office.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
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To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
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To think that some people don't have clean water was mind-boggling to me.
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I certainly know that I owe it the Copernican theory this duty, that as I have attested it as true in my deepest soul, and as I contemplate its beauty with incredible and ravishing delight, I should also publicly defend it to my readers with all the force at my command.
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To cover up actual lack of knowledge, the tale develops an explanation which amounts to divine intervention. It is an easy and, to the primitive mind, a plausible and satisfactory way to explain something of which nothing at all is known.
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This type of paradox is quite characteristic of Zen. It is an attempt to 'break the mind of logic'.
