Philip Pullman Quotes
Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
Quotes to Explore
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.
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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
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I was at a really low point, thinking of going to university and doing a course because the music thing just wasn't happening for me. But I went on the show and...
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Women in Islamic countries are exposed to male domination as a rule rather than as an exception... If anyone protests... as I have done, you are sure to be branded as a witch... What I demand is freedom for women from male domination and a uniform code... It that can be construed as blasphemy, I cannot help it.
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Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.
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For what are we born if not to aid one another?
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There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.
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Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination.
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Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
