Thomas Nagel Quotes
If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.Thomas Nagel
Quotes to Explore
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
Wayne Dyer -
Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
Narendra Modi -
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
Karen Bender -
Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
Saint Ambrose -
One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
Larry Wilmore -
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
Gary Oldman
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee -
The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
Candace Bushnell -
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Umberto Eco -
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
Frances Wright -
Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
Victoria Principal -
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
J. William Fulbright
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
Mandy Patinkin -
I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
Lady Starlight -
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater -
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
John Roy Anderson Yes -
The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
Bar Refaeli -
There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever.
Karan Johar -
If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.
Thomas Nagel