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Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
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- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
- Bubble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.
- Evoking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
- Entropy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020