David Roochnik Quotes
Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person becomes an authority to whom laypersons should, in their dealings with that field, defer. Techne typically results in a useful result.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
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I ain't as good as I once wasI got a few years on me now.But there was a time back in my primeWhen I could really lay it down.And if you need some love tonight,Then I might have just enough.I ain't as good as I once was,But I'm as good once as I ever was.
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'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.
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Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.
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I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.
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The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.
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I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.
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No-huddle is something that I'm very comfortable with.
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I'm a huge fan of Drake. Anything he puts out is great to work out to.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
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You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.
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Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
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It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.
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Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person becomes an authority to whom laypersons should, in their dealings with that field, defer. Techne typically results in a useful result.
