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.
William Kingdon Clifford
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I have selective hearing.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch
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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.
Kacy Catanzaro
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
Felix Baumgartner
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I love Coco de Mer.
Ozwald Boateng
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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.
Ted Danson
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon
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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.
T-Pain
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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.
Caitlyn Jenner
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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.
Aaron Sorkin
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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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.
Pat Brown
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Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.
John Battelle
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Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'
Jamie Farr
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I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'
Matt Roper
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But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
Sarah Dessen
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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.
William Kingdon Clifford
