Elizabeth Spelke Quotes
I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.
Quotes to Explore
-
Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
-
We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
-
So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
-
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
-
What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
-
I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
-
I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
-
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
-
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
-
He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.
-
Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
-
Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.
-
Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.
-
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
-
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
-
A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.
-
When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
-
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
-
Any way you want to slice it, the thing about the apocalypse is, since the beginning of time, it's the projection of mankind's worst fear. The day that, as a race, our number is up.
-
The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.
-
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
-
I was an only child.
-
All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
-
I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.
