Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.

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• I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.

  

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• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

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• All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.

  

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• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  

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• Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

  

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• In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.

  

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• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

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• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

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  • People
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• Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

  

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• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

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• The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

  

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• This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

  

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• A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Problem
  • Accepting
  • Simplicity