Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing, there is no stilling That which is part of your life and breath. You may bury it deep, and leave behind you The land, the people that knew your slain; It will push the sods from its grave, and find you On wastes of water or desert plain.
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Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.
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I'm very healthy. I'm into eating right, and there are just some things to me, when you talk about eating right, you shouldn't eat.
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There's so many different ways to get yourself out there, a lot more options than when we first came out.
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To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
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I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
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An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.
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I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
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I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the position that all dramaturgs own copyright, deserve special billing credit, or should receive remuneration akin to that of the playwright. I know from my ears at the Dramatists Guild that almost everyone a writer encounters has suggestions of how to write and rewrite the play or musical to make it work.
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You need experience around you when you are a young player. You need to know how to run a team, to lead a team and to play as a team which means, your team has leaders but you still function as a team.
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We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
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Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
