L. E. J. Brouwer Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.
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The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
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It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
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Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.
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When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with each word you're going to select. But when you're writing fiction, you can just go on and on; you can be more playful. My editor's main task is to cut back, not ask for more.
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Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.
