Thomas Nagel Quotes
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.Thomas Nagel
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I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul -
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
Patricia Ireland -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri -
We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
Randy Johnson
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
Majel Barrett -
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
R. Kelly -
When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
Ja Rule -
I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
Irrfan Khan
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Dalton Trumbo -
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Malcolm Boyd -
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
Caitlin Rose -
I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
Maggie Q -
When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
Verne Troyer
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If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.
Mariella Frostrup -
The greatest mistake is in not being aware that others are Christ. There are very many people who will not discover it until their last day.
Nguyen Van Thuan -
People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which does not exist, but they identify with this projected self appearance.
Lobsang Tenzin -
Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
Bill Kristol -
John 18:37-38 NIV
Pontius Pilate -
The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.
Thomas Nagel