Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
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Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.
