R. D. Laing Quotes
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.
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Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother's womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.
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I have an older brother who has autism - James.
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I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.
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Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
