Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
Parker Posey -
Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
Ramez Naam -
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking -
Social revolutions are never simple.
Yair Lapid -
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
Octavio Paz
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
W. Bruce Cameron -
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Fay Vincent -
I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
Hansika Motwani -
I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
Octavia Spencer -
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. Lewis -
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
Calamity Jane
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
Van Wyck Brooks -
I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
J. K. Simmons -
To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
Lynn Margulis -
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
Benito Mussolini -
We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
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I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.
Anouska Hempel -
I think of writing now as a long, tiring, pleasant seduction. The stories that you tell, the words that you use and refine, the characters you try to give life to are merely tools with which you circle around the elusive, unnamed, shapeless thing that belongs to you alone, and which nevertheless is a sort of key to all the doors, the real reason that you spend so much of your life sitting at a table tapping away, filling pages.
Elena Ferrante -
My career has gone in such a way that I've gotten to learn that, when you're working with a great storyteller, you don't ask questions; you just trust them.
Chris Zylka -
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
Jean-Francois Lyotard