David Malet Armstrong Quotes

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

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• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Brain

• I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Think
  • Care
  • Caring

• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Moon
  • Fly

• There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Children
  • Lost

• I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Darkness

• I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Financial
  • Commitment

• We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Hope
  • Education

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• There are no unbeatable odds, there are no believable gods.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Odds
  • Believable
  • Unbeatable

• The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Understanding

• In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Challenge

• We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.

  

  Miuccia Prada
  • Thinking
  • Possibility
  • Connected

• As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Lies

• Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

  

  David Malet Armstrong
  • Possible
  • Mathematics
  • Concerned