Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.Douglas Hofstadter
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
Naval Ravikant -
Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
Gabe Kaplan -
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
Fabrizio Moreira -
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
Daniel Ellsberg
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld -
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow -
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
S. I. Hayakawa -
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X -
People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
Patricia Hewitt -
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks -
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
Barry Ritholtz -
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
Eddie Trunk -
The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
Magdalena Neuner -
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
Ian Hacking -
Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
Laura Ingraham
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There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.
John Ratzenberger -
I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.
Dorothy Hamill -
A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.
Ted Cruz -
Being a question on 'The Weakest Link,' that was quite a moment.
Katherine Jenkins -
If you asked me which gives me more joy, my work or my family, there is no question that it's my family. Hands down. If I had to give one up, it wouldn't even be a contest.
Emily Oster -
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
Douglas Hofstadter