Alan Chalmersun Quotes
The confirmations of novel predictions resulting from bold conjectures are very important in the falsificationist account of the growth of science.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Wrestling is something that nothing else can replace for me.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
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I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
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I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
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Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?
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The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.
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I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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The confirmations of novel predictions resulting from bold conjectures are very important in the falsificationist account of the growth of science.
