Alexandre Koyre Quotes
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical sic science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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Education is so important.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
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I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.
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I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
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The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical sic science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.
