J. L. Austin Quotes
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
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President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to succeed they need to work hard and study hard. Then today, former President George W. Bush presented the rebuttal.
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I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.
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The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
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It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence.
