Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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• There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

  

  Ice Cube
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• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
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• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
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• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
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• Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
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• What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.

  

  Vicente Fox
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• One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

  

  Ian Watson
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• In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
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• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  

  Byron White
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• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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