Thomas Nagel Quotes
If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
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Death's the discarder.
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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
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Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
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We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.
