Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
Iman
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
Tariq Ramadan
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
Dan Quayle
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
Karl Rove
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
Kat Graham
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
Carine Roitfeld
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
Ozwald Boateng
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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin
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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
Jonathan Sacks
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A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
William E. Gladstone
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Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain.
Douglas Hofstadter
