August Wilhelm von Hofmann Quotes
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.
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like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
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The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]
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Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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Underground is underground, commercial is commercial. There's market for both, and both get money.
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To sit with George Clooney and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie "Gravity".
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I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.
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The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
