Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.Willard Van Orman Quine
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells -
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
Laura Linney -
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
P. Chidambaram -
I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
Gail Porter -
I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
Wadada Leo Smith
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power -
I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
Becki Newton -
I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
Jackie Robinson -
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
Patrick Modiano -
My dad is afraid of my laugh.
Halston Sage -
I can always go back to education.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa -
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall -
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
Gabriel Marcel -
I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
Brown Campbell -
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern -
I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
Hari Kondabolu
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As hitters, we definitely know when we hit a ball well. But then you see where it lands, and you say 'Whoa.' That definitely felt good.
Carlos PenaVega Big Time Rush -
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
H. L. Mencken -
It wasn't a game. He wasn't trying to beat the train. It was an accident.
Samantha Smith -
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Willard Van Orman Quine