Ernest Sosa Quotes

Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

Ernest Sosa

• Risk
• Tennis
• Jazz
• Adults
• Surgery
• Improvisation

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• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  

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• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  

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• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

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• I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

  

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• Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

  

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• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

  

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• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

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• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• 'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'

  

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• Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.

  

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• I wish that I could tell you that I have a season ski pass, but I have had to give that up since I've been in the Senate.

  

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• In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

  

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• Anything past 90 days constitutes 'severe,' but all late payments stay on your report for seven years if reported.

  

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• Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

  

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• Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

  

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• Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

  

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• In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

  

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• I don't take pictures when I'm with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It's important when you're as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you're with them, and nothing compromises that. I've been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

  

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• There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

  

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• Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

  

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  

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• Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Risk
  • Tennis
  • Jazz