Susanne Langer Quotes
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I can always go back to education.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.
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Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
