Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.'
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I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.
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When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'
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Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.
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'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.
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Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?
