Imre Lakatos Quotes
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.
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I am basically a private person.
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It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
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Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.
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Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
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To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
