Douglas Hofstadter Quotes
If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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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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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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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 do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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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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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.
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'True Blood' fans are as enthusiastic as any fans I've ever encountered.
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If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false.
