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Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Time
  • Human
  • Mistakes

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Mind
  • History

• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Gold
  • Trade
  • Self-Sufficient

• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Just

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Different
  • Long
  • Now

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Trying
  • Days
  • Ironic

• I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • See
  • Individual

• The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • November

• Premio al ben servirePur viene al fin, se ben tarda a venire.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Decision

• Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.

  

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  • Life
  • Trying
  • Ideas