Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.
Kevin Hart
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The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
Oprah Winfrey
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Strangely, some songs you really don’t want to write.
David Bowie
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Most athletes get intimidated once they see how many fans are out there, but it almost calms me down in a way because I think of it as a fun way to show off what I’ve been working on.
Simone Biles
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
Bertrand Russell
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Charles Darwin
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
Malcolm X
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.
David Bowie
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