Thomas Nagel Quotes
every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.
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It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
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New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.
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You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!
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Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.
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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
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Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.
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We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody gets hurt. It's basic.
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... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.
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It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.
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Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
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Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.
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People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.
