Benjamin Peirce Quotes
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.
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An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
