John Eccles Quotes
I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I try to stay focused.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.
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Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.
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The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
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In his idle hours, Heusler sometimes amused himself by trying to conceive of a crime a mortal man could commit that was more monstrous than making a goddess fall in love with him. He had never succeeded.
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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
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I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.
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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one’s dignity.
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Kung fu: You've got to spend your whole life at it before you're kung fu.
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I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.
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I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
