Susanne Langer Quotes
The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.
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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
