Paul Ricoeur Quotes
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'
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You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.12 (15 June 1946)
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This is the UFC. UFC has the best fighters in the world. That's it.
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Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
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I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.
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It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.
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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
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How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?'
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By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
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We're all funny. Humor unites us.
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To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.
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Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.
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The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
