Bryan Magee Quotes
I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
