Thomas Nagel Quotes

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

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• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Idea

• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Gracious

• Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Live
  • Family

• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Balance

• We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Best
  • Feels

• I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Progress

• Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Judge
  • Will
  • Everyone

• The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • America
  • Enemy
  • Segregation

• Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Love
  • Belief

• Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Listen, if you guys wanna move around a bit and shake your asses, it's okay. It's okay by us. You can take all your clothes off if you like, too. It doesn't matter... Fuck off! laughs

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen

• Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.

  

  Charlie Wilson
  • Remember
  • Door
  • Racism

• In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

  

  Duane Michals
  • People
  • Life

• The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Light

• If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Magic

• If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Important

• I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Great
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Moral

• Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Work
  • Live
  • America

• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  

  Connie Sellecca
  • Believe

• Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Done
  • Action
  • Moral