Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes
The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
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You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.
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I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.
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Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.
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The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
