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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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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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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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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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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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
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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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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.
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Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
