William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
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I have selective hearing.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.
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We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.
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The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.
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Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
