Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Orson Welles
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin
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How young can you die of old age?
Steven Wright
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Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others’ discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it’s funny.
Shah Rukh Khan
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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Billy Graham
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The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller
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I don’t choose something unless I think I have a personal understanding and something I can offer. It’s not always thematic. I wanted to do ‘The Grinch’ because I wanted to direct Jim Carrey creating that kind of comic fantasy character live. I just thought that would be a mind-blowing experience, and it creatively was.
Ron Howard
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it’s not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
Irrfan Khan
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
Warren Buffett
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