Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Natasha Trethewey -
I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa -
It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
Rachel Bloom -
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx -
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
Olivier Martinez -
My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
Felicity Jones
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
Rachel Platten -
I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Warren Buffett -
I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
Ted Demme -
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
Patricia Richardson -
I want to make this world perfect.
Malala Yousafzai
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner -
Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.
Mae Whitman -
All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
Abbi Glines -
Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
Frances O'Grady -
If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
Jackie Gleason
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Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.
Charles Francis Richter -
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.
John Henrik Clarke -
Every win that I've been going through, it's been securing anyone's doubts or even my own doubts about whether I belong with these guys, playing these high-level tournaments.
Denis Shapovalov -
I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it's a very New York dream, but I think it's about writing - the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.
Jennifer Egan -
Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.
Natalie -
The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
Ludwig Wittgenstein