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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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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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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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
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I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?
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Feminists are often asked whether pornography causes rape. The fact is that rape and prostitution caused and continue to cause pornography. Politically, culturally, socially, sexually, and economically, rape and prostitution generated pornography; and pornography depends for its continued existence on the rape and prostitution of women.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
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The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.
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Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.
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Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.
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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.
