Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes
Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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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 just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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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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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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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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A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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Be true to yourself and figure out what it is that you are good at.
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I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. - It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy - Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.
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Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.
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Quite absurd, because Caleb has absolutely no taste for fornication. He never has had. So lucky, being a clergyman.
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Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.
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There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.
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If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
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Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
