Zeno Vendler Quotes
Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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Everything I say is true.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.
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Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.