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'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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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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Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.
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If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away?... Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
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I hope that a lot of my mother's talents are shown in a lot of the work that I do.
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There's always two or three players I like, and why I like them, I can't tell you. There's just something about them I think would be great on a team.
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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?'
