Edwin Boring Quotes
So far as consciousness goes, one does one's thinking before one knows what he is to think about.
Quotes to Explore
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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Whether you accept Rādhā and Krishna, or not, please do accept their attraction for each other. Try to create that same yearning in your heart for God. Yearning is all you need in order to realize Him.
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We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.
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I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
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It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.
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Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.
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I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn't a guitar to try and trick people into actually thinking it was a keyboard. I don't know why that was such an obsession, why I didn't just get a keyboard. I guess it was because I had no money.
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When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn."
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I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.
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I'm just here so I won't get fined.
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So far as consciousness goes, one does one's thinking before one knows what he is to think about.
