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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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• When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Important
  • She
  • Man

• A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Remember
  • Baby

• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Once

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Confused
  • Mathematics

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Today
  • King

• In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to 'Where Are U Now' with Justin Bieber and Jack U, so I was like, 'Wow, this is such a banger.' I loved the thought of having a ballad at the beginning and then just a massive drop.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Beginning
  • Car
  • Listening

• Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Political
  • Gay
  • Agenda

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Long
  • Feet
  • Safe

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mom
  • Name

• Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Wig

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Think
  • Language

• I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Better

• If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Real
  • Want
  • See

• I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Guy
  • Jesus
  • Atheist

• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Mind
  • Growing
  • Sometimes

• I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Art
  • Political
  • Worry

• Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Violence
  • Gun
  • Corrupt

• He's certainly welcome to bring us any kind of information he can. I think just the fact that he is coming might spur some interest in the community.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Community
  • Interest
  • Information

• There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

  

  Plato
  • Philosophy
  • Valuable
  • Enigmas