Susanne Langer Quotes
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
Quotes to Explore
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.
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People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.
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You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.
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Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.
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The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
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It's simply not sensible for the government to say there's no link. What I think is surprising is that the government denies there's any link - but the government's handling of this has been rather inept politically from start to finish.
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A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.
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The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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I understand. He has got to do it for his knee. He has to get it right. He said he has never been so bored. Having to sit in one place when he has been so active is driving him nuts.
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My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.
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The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!
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The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
