Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .Willard Van Orman Quine
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
Naomi Watts -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman -
Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
Gagan Narang -
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
J. B. Pritzker
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
Uday Kotak -
I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
Aaron Sorkin -
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
Van Morrison -
As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
Gary Herbert
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans -
My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
Olly Murs -
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney -
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman -
A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
Federica Mogherini
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The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.
Joel Grey -
As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.
Douglas Alexander -
Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!
Charlie Daniels -
I'm a real romantic.
Vanity -
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .
Willard Van Orman Quine