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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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
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My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.
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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
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There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that's what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.
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Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
