Paul Kurtz Quotes
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.
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'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
