Thomas Nagel Quotes
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.Thomas Nagel
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America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
Rachel Bilson -
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
Damian Lewis -
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz -
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch -
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto von Bismarck
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
Beau Bridges -
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
Gavid Hood -
I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
Taran Killam -
Certainly we were disappointed. But the thing that really kept us in our spirits was that the entire country was behind us.
Aamir Khan -
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Dean Koontz
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I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.
Christopher Walken -
I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
James Sanborn -
It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.
Duane Chapman -
My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.
Lisa Kristine -
I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
Lionel Shriver -
There's seven billion people on the planet. It's not about you.
Angela Ahrendts
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There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head.
Kim Cattrall -
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
Martha Plimpton -
I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
Maluma -
And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.
Eli Wallach -
Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
Dan Castellaneta -
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
Thomas Nagel