Galileo Galilei Quotes
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
Quotes to Explore
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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You can't fake being able to cook well.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
