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. . . .
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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.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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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?'
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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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.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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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.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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To have as one's ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all it's departments entirely to His control - this is true Christian living.
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Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.
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My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
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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. . . .
