Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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It's those damn critics again.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
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No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.
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I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.
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Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.
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The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
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The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
