Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
But if you say: 'How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?' then I say: 'How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?'
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
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I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?
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So high above all things that be. Is God uplifted, man can dare. No utterance: he prayeth best. When Silence is his sum of prayer
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We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.
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I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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I think it is probably not the best time in the world.
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Like in the Packer era, West Indies cricket at its very best has been undervalued and its players underpaid. Like Packer, Stanford is a visionary putting money where his mouth is.
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But if you say: 'How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?' then I say: 'How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?'
