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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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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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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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.
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School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.
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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
