J. L. Austin Quotes
We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I'm very passionate.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
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I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
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With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.
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An attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. (No. 11, p. 27)
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We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
