Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.
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And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.
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You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
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Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.
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To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
