Norman Macbeth Quotes

The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

Norman Macbeth

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• Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

  

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• To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

  

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• I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

  

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• That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that one: firmly opposed, as will the vast majority of Canadians.

  

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• I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.

  

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• I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

  

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• My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

  

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• I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

  

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• The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

  

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• I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.

  

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• I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

  

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• If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

  

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• Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

  

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• Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

  

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• It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

  

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• If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

  

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• We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

  

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• Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality

  

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• One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.

  

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• I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

  

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• A lot of my songs, they're like puzzle pieces, and there's just one way to put them together. You could, if you needed to, get the scissors out and cut up things to make them work. But I don't want to do that.

  

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• The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

  

  Norman Macbeth
  • Definition
  • Meaningless
  • Tautology