Bryan Magee Quotes
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.
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After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.
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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
