Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
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I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.
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I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.
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Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.
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Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions.
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People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
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Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
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In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
