Galen Strawson Quotes
Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
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He saw a tree in a backyard, its branches tortured among electric wires and clotheslines, its leaves dry and shriveled before they were fully out. Low in the sky, dark clouds heralded the storm.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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This strategy aims directly at a reannexation of the Southwest, not militarily, but ethnically, linguistically and culturally through transfer of millions of Mexicans into the United States and a migration of 'Anglos' out of the lands Mexico lost in 1848. In California, the project is well advanced.
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First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.
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I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
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Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
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My routine is really simple. I wash my face with Bioderma Sensibio H2O, and I exfoliate around once a week. I then use an oil-free moisturiser, and that's pretty much it.
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And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see. And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
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Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
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Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
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Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.
