William Irwin Thompson Quotes
One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.
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I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
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There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.
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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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I'm such a huge 'Arrested Development' fan.
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It is important, therefore, to understand at the outset the simplicity of this book - what it can accomplish and what it cannot. What it does try to do is to isolate certain psychological factors and to demonstrate rigorously by quantitative scientific methods that these factors are generally important in economic development.
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Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.
