John Searle Quotes
You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.
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Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.
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For us, an album is the highest art form - an album or a really incredible film. We're musicians, not filmmakers, so this is what we can do.
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The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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You need to know enough of the natural sciences so that you are not a stranger in the world.
