Richard Rorty Quotes

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Richard Rorty

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TruthTruth IsComplimentWaySeen

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

Joel McCrea

PicturesQuitYearsKnewAfter

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

Andre Rieu

I AmMagicCreateModernLighting

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Jeanette Winterson

SchoolMindEveryoneBeingBecause

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

Amiri Baraka

MyselfJobYourselfPoetryThink

I dreamed of a future as a muscular, tanned, kibbutznik, who plowed the fertile fields of the Jezreel Valley in the day, sang religiously in the dining hall in the evening, and fiercely guarded the farmland at night, riding a noble horse.

Shimon Peres

FutureDayNightEveningHorse

I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful.

Russell Simmons

ThinkCreateTryHurtfulI Think

Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.

Jon Gruden

ManGameEnoughYouBackPlay

Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.

Colson Whitehead

MusicCulturePeopleDieInformation

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

Bridget Moynahan

ChildRegretMy OwnOwnSecond

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

Thomas Keller

MeKnowNeedReasonStandardsGet

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

Richard Linklater

CollegeYouAthleteCompetitiveGet

For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.

Marine Le Pen

YourselfYouNationCapableInterest

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