William of Occam Quotes

Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.

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• I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • motivation

• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Same
  • Editing
  • Exactly

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Black

• It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Interesting
  • Easy

• I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Career
  • Faith
  • End

• I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • People
  • Me
  • Thoughts

• I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Me
  • Cuba

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Alien

• From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Risk

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Broken
  • U.S.

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Never

• Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Want
  • Place
  • Patriotism

• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Stop
  • Always

• Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Age
  • Identity
  • Individual

• One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

  

  Merlin Olsen
  • Funny
  • Moments
  • Painful

• I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • You
  • Space

• I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

  

  Joey Tempest Europe
  • Music
  • Theory
  • Musicians

• Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.

  

  William of Occam
  • Two
  • Theory
  • Equal