David F. Wells Quotes
Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.
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We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.
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That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.
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Kochu Maria watched with her cake-crumbs.The Fond Smiles watched Fondly.Little Girls Playing.Sweet.One beach-coloured.One brown.One Loved.One Loved a Little Less.
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Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!
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I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.
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I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
