David Berlinski Quotes
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.David Berlinski
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz -
I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
Tahar Rahim -
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
Ike Skelton -
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz -
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
W. Averell Harriman -
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
Karl Pilkington -
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Cal Thomas -
I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
Randy Pausch -
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
Dan Deacon -
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis -
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
Harold Bloom
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Barack Obama -
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
Barbara Steele -
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
Tadashi Yanai -
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
Dana Plato -
I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
Mandy Moore -
Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
Randolph Bourne
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I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.
Kay Bailey Hutchison -
Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
Edgar Ramirez -
'McCarthyism' means pointing out positions taken by liberals that are unpopular with the American people. As former President Bush said, 'Liberals do not like me talking about liberals.' The reason they sob about the dark night of fascism under McCarthy is to prevent Americans from ever noticing that liberals consistently attack their own country.
Ann Coulter -
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.
David Blunkett -
Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.
David Berlinski