Susanne Langer Quotes
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
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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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Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
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We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.
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A bodhisattva is someone who has taken on the sole task of meeting the needs of others, no matter how difficult that might be. His or her self-centeredness has been reduced to the point where wisdom, love, and compassion arise naturally, benefiting any situation. So the mind of a bodhisattva is heroic, vast, and of limitless benefit.
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The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
