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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We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
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If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
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The world is always terrible.
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Cricket is my first love.
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A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.
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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.
