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You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.
Matt Haig
Good
You
Better
Every
Paradox
Stay
Rise
Writer
Taken
Dropped
Another
Getting
Getting Better
Keep
Level
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
Michael Gruber
Art
Character
You
People
Care
Relatives
Paradox
Would
About
Cry
Fake
Exist
Friends
Dies
Fiction
Them
Engage
Your
Who
Why
Basis
Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger than a twin that they would have on the planet Earth who was stationary. This is called the twin paradox.
Michio Kaku
Space
Back
Our
Earth
Slightly
Astronauts
Stationary
Paradox
Would
Come
Around
Go
Than
Younger
Planet
Planet Earth
Who
Twin
Actually
OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.
Mike Mills
Life
Time
Mom
Family
Crazy
Gay
You
Parents
Spent
OK
Married
Paradox
He
Knew
Like
Understand
Were
Lot
Get
Trying
Did
Get Married
Going
Heck
Whole
Dad
Based
Why
The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.
Mother Angelica
Hope
Peace
Joy
Darkness
Light
Contentment
Pain
Christian
Desolation
Possesses
Consolation
Paradox
He
Sorrow
Exile
Experiences
Turmoil
Fulfillment
Lives
Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.
Mother Angelica
Life
Soul
Experience
People
Confused
Christian
Every
Further
Paradox
Life Experiences
Seems
Most
Becomes
Experiences
Holiness
Who
Away
Harder
Jesus
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown
Science
Money
Long
First
Sense
State
Paradox
Worthlessness
Poets
Absolute
Known
Equation
Becomes
Essence
Common
Famous
Psychoanalysis
Common Sense
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.
Robert J. Shiller
People
Burden
Lose
Other
Jobs
Paradox
Rises
Thrift
Rather
Because
Causes
Falls
Debt
Than
Produce
Buying
Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.
Robert McKee
Time
You
Change
Wish
Changing
Philosophical
Dilemma
Says
Possible
Paradox
Moral
Would
Casablanca
About
Both
Remaining
Through
Aristotle
Said
Person
Same
Movie
While
Means
Measure
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.
Robert Winston
Religion
Man
Science
Reality
Dangerous
Paradox
Uncertainty
Both
Perhaps
Whether
Certainty
Expressions
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
Romola Garai
Saying
Other
Paradox
Promoting
Oneself
Hand
Oh
Famous
Want
Realise
Innate
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Good
Good Things
Father
Will
Alive
Paradox
About
He
Miss
Dead
Him
Course
While
Things
A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.
Steve Erickson
Paradox
City
Something
Loose
Does
Continuity
Psyche
Where
Story
Place
Which
Lend
Movies
Themselves
Naturally
Fast
Play
Street
Streets
This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.
Steven Levy
Ignorance
Genius
Vision
Nothing
Software
Market
Paradox
Could
Computer
Consumer
Never
Had
He
New
Days
Understood
Been
Diapers
Microsoft
Might
Nothing New
Bill
Bill Gates
Youthful
Early
Early Days
Gates
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
Tom Rachman
News
Me
Business
Writing
Too
Paradox
About
Somehow
Affections
Stirred
Romance
Little
News Business
Held
Noticed
The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people to trust, and this paradox can't really be avoided.
Vitalik Buterin
Technology
Trust
People
Blockchain
Secure
Paradox
More
Main
Generally
Advantage
New
Supposed
New Technologies
Really
Hard
Avoided
Technologies
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.
Will Self
Success
Work
Attitude
Alone
Me
Failure
Creative
People
Think
Possibility
Paradox
Prevails
Only
Obviously
Nor
Any
Whose
Among
I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He was wild about the book, and apoligized that he had never heard of me before the book. He asked what I had been doing for so many years. I replied that I was merely following the Buddha's advice to 'chop wood and carry water.'
Steven Gundry
Me
Book
Water
Plant
Advice
Before
Wild
Out
Paradox
Carry
Bestseller
Following
About
Never
Had
He
Never Forget
Joseph
Buddha
Merely
Come
Doing
Been
Years
Heard
Replied
Forget
Did
Just
So Many Years
Wood
Asked
Chop
Many
Dr
My wife and I were actually driving in the south of France when we got the word that Kelly Clarkson had come out that 'The Plant Paradox' had changed her life. I'm a big fan of hers. I like her music and I would love to work with her.
Steven Gundry
Life
Work
Love
Music
Word
Plant
Wife
Big
Changed
Hers
France
Out
Paradox
Would
Had
Driving
Come
Like
Got
Were
Big Fan
South
Fan
Her
Actually
Kelly
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