Raymond Smullyan Quotes
I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
Quotes to Explore
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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Watching NASCAR with my wife is like taking a test. Every single turn, she has a question. Now, here's the problem. Sometimes her questions actually make sense. I don't have an answer for them. So, I have to that guy thing and go Pfft! You ever hear your man do that, ladies? That means he doesn't know the answer, but he's thinking.
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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?
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I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
