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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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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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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A father’s traditional role prepared him to love his family by being away from the love of his family.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
