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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No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.
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I'm not a big spender. I don't get into all the jewelry and all that.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.
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I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
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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.
