Alan Sokal Quotes
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
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I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
