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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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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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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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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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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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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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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A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
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We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.
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Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
