Pam Gems Quotes
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
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When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
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No wonder you guys lost.
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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
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I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.
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I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.
