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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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
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When my mother left us, he [Stalin] was left completely alone. And I think what came next, in the late 30s and after the war in the 40s - I think that was a result of his complete loneliness on top of the world. Nobody would argue with him anymore.
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No matter how well you argue from premises to conclusion, your conclusion will be weak if your premises are weak.
