George Spencer-Brown Quotes
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.
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I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
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I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.
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But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
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I use a lot of the Web 2.0 apps that I've seen out there, and I think there is incredible work going on there.
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It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
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One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
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To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.
