Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.
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The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
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Dallas is an extraordinary place in it's own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can't get away from, particularly when I arrived, you've got no idea of the heat in this place. It's over 100 degrees, and with that the humidity is ridiculous. I mean, people don't live here, armadillos live here.
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Paris, as modern city is beautiful in its perfection, but perfection means death and decay. Thus interfering with the process of dying is a crime against perfection: it stands in the way of a higher perfection.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
