Joshua Prince-Ramus Quotes
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
Ted Danson
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
Olivia Wilde
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
W. L. George
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
Samira Wiley
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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
Vince Cable
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
Sam Kean
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
Chuck Berry
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.
Al Pacino
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The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.
Octavio Paz
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Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.
Fritz Perls
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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Robert Falcon Scott
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When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.
R.A. Dickey
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George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.
Drew Carey
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For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee.
Ernesto Illy
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The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.
Michael Merzenich
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Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.
Stevie Wonder
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If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.
Andrew Gelman
