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 once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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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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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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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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I hold a mini-New Year's Eve party each year with my son Ronan, and we make pigs in a blanket. They are delicious!
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We are trying to end poverty in the world by 2030 and we’re going to focus especially on the well-being of the bottom 40 per cent of every country.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.
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It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government.
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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.
