Norman Macbeth Quotes
The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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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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So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.
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The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.
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Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.
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You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
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The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.
