Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
S. J. Rozan
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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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The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.
Brian Koslow
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That study confirmed Keller's point: that a reusable grocery bag made of non-woven polypropylene plastic would have to be used at least eleven times to have a lower carbon footprint than using disposable single-use grocery bags. There were other comparisons in the study, too: Using a paper bag three times would do the trick, while it would take 131 trips to the market with a cotton bag to have a lower carbon footprint - which meant the material used for a reusable bag was critical.
Edward Humes
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Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
Ferran Adria
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You can't appeal to us through our wombs, we're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it.
Kellyanne Conway
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Emotions are triggered by what we like to call emotionally competent stimuli, that is, objects or situations that can be real, like in front of you, or be in your mind when you think and you recall, and they act on brain devices that were designed by evolution.
Antonio Damasio
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Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain.
Douglas Hofstadter
