Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
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It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you.
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Democrats will come together as we should to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump and elect our party's nominee.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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I've been a woman in a man's world now for 30 years. I was the first person to broadcast from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and that was just all suits all the time. It didn't really affect me in any way.
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You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.
