Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
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Book #10: A Book of Travellers' Tales. As it hits the water its pages detach themselves from the covers, which sink... and the pages form themselves into small paper boats that float away on the tide.
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In India everything has a use and a value.
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I'm trying to build a brand. I'm not just doing one-off projects.
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Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.
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If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
