Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes
I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I don't do negative things.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
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I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.
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A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.
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I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
