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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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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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 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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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglomerates - was to make Japan an egalitarian society for the first time.
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On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.
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Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
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Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.
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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.
