John Tyndall Quotes
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
Quotes to Explore
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.
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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.
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I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.
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I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proved to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
