Allan Sandage Quotes
Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.
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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
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Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.
