Thomas Nagel Quotes

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

Thomas Nagel

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• Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

  

  Taylor Dane
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• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

  R. Kelly
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  • Loved

• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  

  Ovid
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• I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Thought

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
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• Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Together
  • Play
  • Beat

• I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Business
  • City
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• You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Think
  • Funny

• What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Action
  • Thought

• I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Care
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• I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Great
  • Places
  • Modeling

• What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Public
  • Shy
  • Friendly

• I'm playing every day. I still want to win.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Win

• I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

  

  Doug McClure
  • Music
  • Death
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• Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Truth
  • Problem
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• Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Problem
  • Consciousness
  • Program