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Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. ↗


— Philip Kaufman


#film #imprisoned #kept #marquis #must

This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased. ↗


— Philip Kaufman


#called #even #film #fought #francisco

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. ↗


— Walter Kaufmann


#because #believes #bible #buddha #god

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion. ↗


— Walter Kaufmann


#became #because #belong #civic #equal

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic. ↗


— Mickey Kaus


#around #blog #danger #developments #fully

You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers. ↗


— Guy Kawasaki


#before #big #big deal #car #could

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. ↗


— Alan Kay


#act #computer #exploited #language #like

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. ↗


— Edwidge Danticat


#haiti #occupied #states #united #united states

And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very often, 'The limited data we had led one to reasonably conclude this. I now see that there's another explanation for it.' ↗


— David Kay


#case #conclude #data #explanation #had

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance. ↗


— David Kay


#apology #came #differed #estimated #existed






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