Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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It's easy to trick yourself into thinking something's funnier than it is.
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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
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The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
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What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a lack thereof can serve as either a prison or a fortress commanded by the mind: you can become a slave to it, or it can set you free.
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At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp.
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Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
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There are many actors who, whatever they do, they pretty much play themselves.
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Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.
