Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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GoodHumorPeopleWorldLookingSay

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

Jerry Saltz

WorkCulturePeopleOpportunities

At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

Jeffrey Wright

WorkYouInvestmentActorRiskMore

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

John Mahoney

FamilyMotherMeBackBornFirst

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

Robert J. Flaherty

LookingSayingYouFindGoOut

We live inside a democracy, and you know, public will matters in a democracy. I just hope it's informed public will, and frankly, when the decisions are made, you understand the costs.

Michael Hayden

LiveHopeDemocracyDecisionsYou

I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.

Rod Stewart

MeBlessedGrandfatherBecomeMay

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Matisyahu

HabitPeopleEasyHardAnything

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

Michael Moore

DailyTrustStupiditySocietyGreed

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

SeedNewDiscussionFreshGround

I'm suited to harsh conditions, I don't like racing in the heat.

Lizzie Armitstead

RacingHeatLikeConditionsHarsh

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Joshua Bell

ProblemsKnowIndustryRecordingHow

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

Chi McBride

LifeChangeTiredMy LifePhoneGot

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