Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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All artists have insecurity.
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To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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I love Humanity but I hate humans.
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.
