Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
Damien Rice
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
Ted Sarandos
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
Gayle Forman
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
A. J. P. Taylor
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
Young Jeezy
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
Sally Hawkins
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
Zac Goldsmith
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Eduardo Chillida
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
Patrick O'Brian
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After the launch of Bumble Date, users were starting to connect as friends, so we decided to launch BFF. When I was using BFF, I matched with someone who I then went on to hire at Bumble HQ. From there, I thought, why not create a platform for women to build business connections and advance their careers.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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It was a fun show. At one point the barricade in front of the stage gave way, which scared the concert promoters because they thought people were going to get hurt. So we had to stop the show for a while. That was funny... Although I guess only funny because no one got hurt.
Mike Shinoda
Linkin Park
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The idea that humanity is divided into these separate and distinct and disparate groups with clear boundaries has been disproven by science a long time ago, decades ago. Humanity really is more of a continuum, and that people belong on the same continuum and there are no clear breaks between these so-called races.
Alex Tizon
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
Hamish Bowles
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Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.
Najib Razak
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A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.
Pyotr Ouspensky
