Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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Workers were occupied with the ancient task of trying to stay alive, which simply happened to require, in a consumer economy overwhelmingly based on the satisfaction of peripheral desires, a series of activities all to easily confused with clownishness.
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A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.
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An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
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I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.
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I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.
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Noise does not disturb me, as I think that it gives a quaint atmosphere to a picture that fully matches my vision of nature and the wild species I like to photograph.
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The engineering is secondary to the vision.
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In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.
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Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
