Carroll Quigley Quotes
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.
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I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.
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Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
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After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.
