Anthony Weston Quotes
No matter how well you argue from premises to conclusion, your conclusion will be weak if your premises are weak.
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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I want to try everything.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
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I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
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Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.
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My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
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Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go.
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I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
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Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
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I’m tighter than face lifts and flyer than spaceships.
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We had the mind-set to just keep putting points on the board. One of the goals coming into the game was to keep our defense off the field, knowing that their offense had a lot of firepower.
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The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.
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The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
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No matter how well you argue from premises to conclusion, your conclusion will be weak if your premises are weak.
