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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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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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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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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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.
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The kitchen is the heart of the house.
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I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.
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Not many know that I'm a mountaineer, and my love for adventure will never die.
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My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.
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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
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I don't think you can ever get used to being this famous. I've learnt how to keep things separate or at a distance. I've nothing to hide. But seeing this as work, like a job, means I can take a step back. It's me right now in front of you and in the papers but it's not all of me. If you give yourself entirely to the business, you'd end up going mad. And I'm not mad. Not yet.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
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I love that I came up this way. First of all, I have nine close friends, and it's hard to find people you can trust and lean on in this industry.
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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.
