John Searle Quotes
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.
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Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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'I want to know what it says,' he answered, looking steadily in her face. 'The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?'
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
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Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball.
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Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
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We all have grown up watching Hindi romantic films, and when it comes to show love, that's probably how we show it.
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Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.
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The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.
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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
