William Stanley Jevons Quotes

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

William Stanley Jevons

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• I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
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• I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.

  

  Florence Green
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• Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

  

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• I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
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• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

  

  Zoe Tapper
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• I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

  

  Dan Brown
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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• The Internet really offered a space for me to thrive.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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• Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

  

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• When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

  

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• We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
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• How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

  

  Lewis Carroll
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• Toast is bread made delicious and useful. Un-toasted bread is okay for children's sandwiches and sopping up barbecue sauce, but for pretty much all other uses, toast is better than bread. An exception is when the bread is fresh from the oven, piping hot, with butter melting all over it. Then it's fantastic, but I would argue that bread fresh out of the oven is a kind of toast. Because I'm an asshole and I refuse to be wrong about something.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
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• In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.

  

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• I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

  

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• Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

  

  William H. Gass
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• One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
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  • Steps