Raymond Smullyan Quotes
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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Square meals often make round people.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
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What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
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We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.
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I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.
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One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.
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I'm happiest when in front of the camera, and I didn't know it until I got up there.
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I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.
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Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.
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Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
