Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
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I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
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If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
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In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
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Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
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Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
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Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war.
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There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
