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The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor,… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
Exposures, if they are mild, in the sense of barely just a small concentration, it's mostly an irritant, particularly the peroxides, that… — Anthony S. Fauci Copy Share Image
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
No one can deny that some Islamist groups have credential and popularity. But that does not mean they are a majority. If… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Movies aren't "slow burn," and aren't serious, aren't interesting, because everything from the movie to the promotional materials is telling you that… — Ti West Copy Share Image
Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less.… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Debating the concept of race does not mean that I in any way regard this as a quarrel between neighbors over where… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Some players out there don't really interact with the crowd - they're really serious - but I think it's part of my… — Nick Kyrgios Copy Share Image
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper… — Suge Knight Copy Share Image
We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it;… — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said.… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt,… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson… — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image