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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The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
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L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.
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I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
