Immanuel Kant Quotes
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
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Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
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In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.
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Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.
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Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
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It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
