Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I love weird science. I love weird action. I love weird characters.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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I'd love to just continue making original films from scratch, but it doesn't mean I won't try my hand at something else in the meantime.
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The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
