Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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I believed I was invincible.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
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Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
