Susan Blackmore (Susan Jane Blackmore) Quotes

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

Susan Blackmore

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• My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
  • Being
  • Blonde

• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Water
  • Red
  • Japanese

• I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Relationship
  • Company
  • Playing

• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Rest
  • Present
  • Population

• This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.

  

  Nahmanides
  • Purpose

• It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Wanted

• One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Good
  • True
  • Freedom

• I spent my life making fashion an art form.

  

  Charles James
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Science
  • Honesty

• Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Life is
  • Dancing
  • Integrate

• In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Party
  • Christian
  • Attitude

• What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • History
  • Sense
  • Skepticism

• Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

  

  Will Shetterly
  • Writing
  • Strange
  • Humorous

• If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Religion
  • Stars
  • Temple Of Truth

• I'm under no illusion that the future will be a neat and tidy or desirable world. We will gain a lot of things through necessity and a lot of them through all sorts of fragile dysfunction - not because they're bad ideas but because they will inevitably be adopted in a chaotic, reactive way.

  

  David Holmgren
  • World
  • Illusion
  • Adopted

• Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

  

  Susan Blackmore
  • Consciousness
  • Illusion
  • Memes