Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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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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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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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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My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life... And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.
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As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.
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It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.
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I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
