Zeno Vendler Quotes
Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
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Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
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It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
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Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
