Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?
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It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.
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I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John McCain.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
