Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
