Thomas Dewar Quotes

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

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• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • Better
  • Rich

• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Children
  • Think

• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Father
  • California
  • Rich

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Mind
  • Playing

• Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Guns

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Want
  • I Can

• They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Free

• I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army...If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Army
  • Fence

• Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

  

  Brian Wilson

• I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • God
  • Why
  • Sun

• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Existence
  • Eternal
  • Illusory

• Day by day, we let love just walk awayAnd I'll be the first to say, I was glad to see it goAnd day by day, ever since you went awayI'm finding I'm still missing you, and I just got to know...Does that blue moon ever shine on you?I wanna hold you close to me, feel just like it used to be.And baby, if you feel like I do,You can come to me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Baby
  • Moon
  • Blue

• Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Help

• You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Soul

• When you look at this and where it's all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it's a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • Up
  • Business

• When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

  

  Socrates
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Beauty

• I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Creating
  • Produce
  • Empty

• I Love, Therefore I Am.

  

  Alan AtKisson
  • Love
  • Therefore

• A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Smile
  • Empty
  • Philosopher