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 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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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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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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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Think your own thoughts.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life.
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I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.
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Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain.
