Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I don't like controversy.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.
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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Jede Vorstellung ist eine Verallgemeinerung, und diese gehört dem Denken an. Etwas allgemein machen, heißt, es denken. ('Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts oder Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse', Berlin, 1833, p. 35)
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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
