Richard Rorty Quotes
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
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When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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...in the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
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Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an atheist for his opinions. Let him have a care of his practices.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.
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I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.
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But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.
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I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
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I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
