Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
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I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt - all of these things are valuable, if not more valuable, than running for office.
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My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.
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A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
