Iris Murdoch Quotes
The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.Iris Murdoch
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman -
I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
Cara Delevingne -
A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
Eddie Redmayne -
Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
Walter Kirn -
I try to keep an even keel.
Dan Fouts
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They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
Sam Huntington -
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Baz Luhrmann -
When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.
W. Bruce Cameron -
We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.
Aaron Neville -
When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'
Raina Telgemeier
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
Hans Jonas -
My young nerds, here's the deal:
Craig Newmark -
Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
Albert Einstein -
I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.
Mary Beard -
The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
Jay Parini -
By design, Bitcoin is a scarce resource with a predictable supply of new issuance. And it is this scarcity and predictable supply that make it so attractive as an underlying asset to bind to economic activity and trade.
Jeremy Allaire
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Some people don't know how to take some of the everyday, regular things that they have going for them and turn it into something else.
Kris Jenner -
I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'
Alain Bouchard -
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
Michael Novak -
The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.
Iris Murdoch