Abraham Kaplan Quotes
"Some fool has put the head of this nail on the wrong end." "You idiot, it's for the opposite wall!" To be sure, if the space of physical objects allowed motions of translation only, and not also rotations. That space has such geometry is a fantasy; experience shows otherwise. It is only experience that makes this complaint and the rejoinder a dialogue of madmen.
Quotes to Explore
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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During the season... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.
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If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.
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We need to believe Donald Trump when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.
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"Some fool has put the head of this nail on the wrong end." "You idiot, it's for the opposite wall!" To be sure, if the space of physical objects allowed motions of translation only, and not also rotations. That space has such geometry is a fantasy; experience shows otherwise. It is only experience that makes this complaint and the rejoinder a dialogue of madmen.
