Karl Popper Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
