Thomas Nagel Quotes
What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?
Thomas Nagel
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
Laura Esquivel
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
Najib Mikati
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
Ace Frehley
Kiss
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
Barbara Amiel
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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
Eddie Huang
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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
Floyd Skloot
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If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
Naftali Bennett
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
Hamilton Jordan
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When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
Larry Bird
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'That man is … odd,' I dared say to William.'He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.'
Umberto Eco
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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
Maureen Forrester
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
Yolanda Adams
