Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I can always go back to education.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material.
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A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.
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Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
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An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.
