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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I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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I believe very strongly that guns are instruments of death. That's all they're used for; there's no purpose for them other than to kill. I think you have to understand that in order to respect them. I have no fear of my teenage son handling weapons, because he has that respect.
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
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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.
