Alan Turing Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Good design should be honest.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.
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There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
