Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
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With improv or a full length play - you know how you go to a theater, and after 10 minutes you say, 'Oh, I don't like this thing,' but you don't want to get up and leave? At a sketch show, it's always something new every few minutes.
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The course of development
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, 'What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?'
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
