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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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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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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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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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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There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
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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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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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What looks like magic is just science we don’t understand yet.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.
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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.
