Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
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My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.
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I worked in a gym. I was a trainer. I did all the crappy ex-football-player jobs.
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I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
