Alan Sokal Quotes
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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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.
