Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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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.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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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.'
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It's kind of like I won a gold medal with my family.
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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.
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People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.
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True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
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We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.
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Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain.
