Noam Chomsky Quotes

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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• If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Real
  • Free
  • Interesting

• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Airplane

• Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Myself

• Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Camera
  • Filmmaking
  • Digital

• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Write
  • Try

• I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Women
  • Done
  • Think

• When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Try
  • Reach
  • Ever

• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Heart
  • Vision
  • Dreams

• In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Culture
  • Claim
  • Pluralism

• One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Things
  • Enjoy
  • Fishing

• They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Power
  • Prayer

• If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.

  

  Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
  • Hurt

• This was a very difficult determination in an extremely close race. Both men will make far better Virginia chief executives than their critics would lead you to believe.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Determination

• Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Soul
  • Relation

• My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Morning

• People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.

  

  Jim Lovell
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

  

  Noam Chomsky
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