John Searle Quotes

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

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• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Grow

• I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Want
  • Change
  • Show

• I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Driving

• I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Ambition
  • Bird
  • Intelligence

• Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Money
  • Science
  • Mountains

• Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Love
  • Oil

• I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • People
  • Control
  • Frustration

• Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Child
  • Child Labor

• I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Happy

• If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Different
  • Challenge
  • Unique

• Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Work
  • Important
  • Me

• The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Innocence
  • Weaknesses

• I think, politically, for the House Democrats, we face that same danger here, whether currently indictable or not, it is clear that the President has, at a minimum, engaged in highly unethical and unscrupulous behavior which does not bring honor to the office he holds.

  

  Steve Lynch Autograph
  • President
  • Democrats

• Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Home
  • She
  • Kids

• I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

  

  Billy Connolly
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

  

  Jill Greenberg
  • Time
  • Children
  • Pain

• Let us resolve the internal political problems of Russia ourselves

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Resolve

• The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

  

  John Searle