Thomas Nagel Quotes
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.Thomas Nagel
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
Jack McBrayer -
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
L'Wren Scott -
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
Floyd Skloot -
I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
Sam Shepard -
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Umberto Eco -
In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
Warren Farrell
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
Carla Gugino -
The movies were custard compared to politics.
Nancy Reagan -
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
Gary Ackerman -
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
Danica Patrick
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I'm gonna tell you something right now, Indian people in the United States are the hardest working people I've ever seen, and that's coming from a Mexican, okay?
Gabriel Iglesias -
Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
Adam Gopnik -
We need to prove to American voters, particularly independent voters who gave us this opportunity to lead, that this is not your grandfather's tax-and-spend Democratic Party.
Jared Polis -
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon -
I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.
Donatella Versace -
I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
Paula Pell
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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
John Milton -
Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.
Carol S. Dweck -
I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
Alexander Skarsgard -
When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.
Dan Shaughnessy -
The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
Wade Boggs -
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.
Thomas Nagel