Allen W. Wood Quotes
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
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This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation. (p. 362)
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The critical goals of solid internal controls and transparent financial reporting are better achieved by a free and unfettered capital market rather than by burdensome regulation. Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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Free time is the enemy of progress. Because free time. Sitting around. Is not doing.
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Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'
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At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
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We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.
