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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

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• I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • motivation

• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

  

  Imelda May
  • Live
  • Art
  • College

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Camera

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Alien

• I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

  

  Ice T
  • Love
  • Think
  • Acting

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Stop
  • Always

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Problem
  • Photography
  • Turn

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Taken

• I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Work

• If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Truth
  • True
  • Spirit

• The wind blows wild and i may move, politicians lie and i am not fooled you don't need a razor or a three piece suit to argue the truth.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Truth
  • Wind
  • Politicians

• Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Certain
  • Theory