Raymond Smullyan Quotes
Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.
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Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
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We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.
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I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.
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Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
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Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.
