Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes -
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe -
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
D. B. Sweeney -
When I was a kid, I was super shy.
Rachel Dratch -
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
Barry Jenkins
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
Bling is good.
Natalie Massenet -
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor -
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston -
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
J. D. Vance -
The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
Fernando Torres
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
Wayne Swan -
I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
Iqbal Quadir -
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
This is America, not a banana republic.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
LaToya London -
I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
Rabih Alameddine
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If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.
Frances McDormand -
I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
Victor Ponta -
There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.
Scotty Moore -
You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
Dan Aykroyd -
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.
Marge Piercy -
Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
Ludwig Wittgenstein