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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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.
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The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.
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I just can't imagine having to do an accent all the time - like, in your whole career.
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Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.
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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?
