Alva Noe Quotes
The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.
Quotes to Explore
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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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'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
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...the prophet of harmless solace in a harsh world....
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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.
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Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.
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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had; it's a fresh start.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.
