Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy.
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Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.
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I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.
