Dennis Lindley Quotes
Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.
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It should have been a better December, given the one extra Saturday.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Praise God we don't have to hide scars
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Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
