Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.Thomas Kuhn
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
J. J. Watt -
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman -
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
Laura Wilkinson -
I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
Karen Finerman
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
Kate Winslet -
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi -
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Beau Willimon -
Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
Orison Swett Marden -
When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
Ian Mckellen -
I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.
Max Minghella -
I'd love to have four or five kids.
Jennie Finch -
Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.
Pierre Boulez -
Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
Anand Mahindra -
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.
Twyla Tharp -
I'm just a story teller.
Doris Lessing
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Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Marquis de Lafayette -
In Austin, you work in anything that will pay and a lot of things that don't. The documentary filmmaker may also be a gaffer on a feature and producer for a commercial series and web host. Everyone just does a little bit of everything, and you have to because it's a secondary market.
Keith Maitland -
Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
Butch Trucks -
The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
Albert Einstein -
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
Thomas Kuhn