- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a magazine.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's more instructive to learn what you don't like than just to like everything.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.
- Nov 07, 2020
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
- Ice Cream
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- Nov 07, 2020