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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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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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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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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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
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I don't want to dog the NFL.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
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Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
