John Wilkins Quotes

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

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• You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Yourself
  • Hollywood

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • House
  • Never

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • English
  • Years
  • Speak

• The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Up
  • World
  • Value

• Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Mother
  • Want
  • You

• I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Single

• I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

  

  Nelly
  • Good
  • Work
  • Sometimes

• I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

  

  Bessie Smith
  • Want
  • Drummer
  • Tempo

• For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Family
  • Giving
  • Health

• No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Matter

• [When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • She
  • Friends

• I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.

  

  Kanye West
  • Work
  • Why
  • Learning

• Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lips
  • Roses

• The only sin is stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity

• We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Way
  • Danger
  • Carriage

• I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Understanding
  • Needs
  • Details

• Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

  

  John Wilkins
  • Needs
  • Adequate
  • Generalisation