Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
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I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
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Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.
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But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.
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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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I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.
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Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
