Thomas Nagel Quotes
Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
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I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
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Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search-for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
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'Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!'
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I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.
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Pretty uniformly, people want the benefits of bitcoin and the blockchain - near-instant transfers, globally available on any Internet-connected device, highly secure, and nearly-free value transfers.
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We can't laugh quite as much on camera, but we sure do on the set.
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The only thing God is building in this world is his church.
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The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
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The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.
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FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
