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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I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.
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I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point.
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I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.
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This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
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When you win, you feel good about yourselves. That's what the focus is going to be on these next couple games.
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To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
