Neil Diamond Quotes

Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Look
  • Philosophy

• My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Trump

• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• My philosophy is to be me.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Philosophy

• I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Religious

• To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Wrong
  • Doors
  • Philosophical

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • You
  • Moving
  • Philosophy

• Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Serious
  • Politics

• I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Think
  • Better
  • Size

• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Soul
  • Practice
  • Philosophy

• If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Giving

• Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Feels
  • Door

• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

  

  M. Ward
  • Live
  • Best
  • Surprise

• Won? He’s one of them! How exactly is that winning?” Michael shook his head, moved up behind her, and put his hands on her shoulders. He kissed the nape of her neck gently. “I don’t know, Eve. I’m just telling you what I heard. He got some kind of agreement out of the vampires. And it was because Amelie loved him.” “Yeah, loved him enough to kill him and turn him into a bloodsucking fiend,” Eve said grimly. “How sweet. Romance isn’t dead. Oh, wait. It is.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Winning
  • Sweet

• I'm glad to be part of that brand and be a part of something that Hugh Hefner did. And it's a sisterhood - all the girls are sisters. You go there and it's a big old family. Once you're a Playmate you're a Playmate for life.

  

  Alyssa Arce
  • Family
  • Playmate
  • Hugh Hefner

• Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Philosophy
  • Doors
  • Shame