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 dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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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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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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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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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.
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Good books shouldn’t be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.
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If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.
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Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.
