Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Robert M. Pirsig

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A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.

Andy Dunn

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Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.

Andre Leon Talley

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When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'

Jeff Buckley

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I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

Tom Perrotta

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At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

Roh Moo-hyun

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We yelled, mostly, but bad enough that you wanted to fight. That's how we became winners. We fought each other. When you did something wrong, we'd tell you about it.

Mickey Rivers

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I don't want to think too much about the future. I want to go step by step, and we'll see what's next.

Mirko Cro Cop

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Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.

Dominique Wilkins

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It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

Dorothy Hamill

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You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

Daymond John

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I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Chloe Grace Moretz

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I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Conor McPherson

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