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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I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.
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Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.
