Thomas Nagel Quotes
The external view of agency forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.
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I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.
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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
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Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.
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Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.
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The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.
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I guess I'm bothered by how fans react to certain things and how they're interested in certain things over true talent. I've always appreciated talent over everything else.
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.
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So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
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I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.
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You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.
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TV and film has defined my entire life.
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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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The external view of agency forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.
