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".
Quotes to Explore
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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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Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.
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When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.
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I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.
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'Masculine and feminime, vertical and horizontal.
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I love playing confused, broken characters.
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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".
