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!

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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.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Team
  • Winning

• 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.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Feeling
  • Pain
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • First
  • Open

• 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.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Life
  • House
  • Car

• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Writing
  • Party
  • Picture

• The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Important
  • Survival

• What was critical for the maintenance of pegged exchange rates, I argue in this book, was protection for governments from pressure to trade exchange rate stability for other goals.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Book
  • Goals

• Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great

• It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.

  

  Kerri Green
  • God

• Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Men
  • America

• I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

  

  China Mieville
  • Science
  • Professional

• You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

  

  Bunker Roy
  • Work
  • Money
  • College

• You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Technology
  • Will

• At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Society
  • Free
  • Risk

• Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Myself
  • Acting

• The day breaks not, it is my heart.

  

  John Donne
  • Heart

• 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!

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • Free
  • Choices
  • Will