Samuel Alexander Quotes
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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I write in a small office at home.
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If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.
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With 'If I Stay,' I want you to feel that the whole story is being told from a larger, spiritual point of view. So the beginning is very theatrical.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.
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Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
