Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa's single voice may be heard, within which Africa's problems may be studied and resolved.
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I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
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With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.
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Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
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I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.
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Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
