Karl Popper Quotes
There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. … It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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I'm a real romantic.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
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I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.
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If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
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I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.
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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
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I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
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There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. … It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.
