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Bryan Magee Quotes

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: April 12, 1930

Topics

World Curiosity Drive Philosophy

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Love Good Father Rain Sun Evil

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

You Out Things Give Get Them

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

Meriwether Lewis

Morning Night Winds High Different

My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be.

Faith Sports Brother Parents People

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.

Sturgill Simpson

Music Simple Poetry Bridge Road You

I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Family Day Night Summer Never First

I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.

Think More Him Stressed Than Means

I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

Life Family Hero Blue Church House

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.

Community Experience World Living

The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.

Live Fight Vegas First Saw Match

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

Life Love City Night Road Love Life

I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.

Tea Think Know Drink Fair Very

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