Franz Boas Quotes
This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.
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Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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No - we need money first.
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A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.
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There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
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Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.
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We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.
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Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.
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A woman hath nyne lyues like a cat.
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It's just great to be part of it. I think it's a great testament to the leadership Alvarez provides. From Day 1, it's been about this game.
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This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.
