Ernest Sosa Quotes
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those standards.Ernest Sosa
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. Sweeney -
In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
Nathan Parsons -
My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
Edgar Ramirez -
An actor has to embody a role.
Taylor Hackford -
My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Kai Bird -
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
Walt Alston -
The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
Jack Charlton -
I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
Earl Campbell -
I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.
Yayoi Kusama -
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
Barney Frank -
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Iain Banks
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People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.
Wayne Wonder -
When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
Taylor Swift -
'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.
Damien Chazelle -
In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
Gary Lineker -
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
Irvine Welsh -
Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Antonio Porchia
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Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.
Aristotle -
Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.
Bob Marley -
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
James A. Garfield -
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those standards.
Ernest Sosa