Thomas Nagel Quotes
If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.Thomas Nagel
Quotes to Explore
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
Kate Christensen -
I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
Washed Out -
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
Rand Paul -
If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
Iris Apfel -
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
Jacki Weaver -
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
Christina Aguilera -
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
Victor Papanek -
Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."
Martin Mull -
I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
John Travolta -
When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
A. J. Jacobs -
He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
Leslie Earl Maxwell
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I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.
Alessandra Ambrosio -
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
Henry Paulson -
I want to do everything. That's my problem.
Joshua Bell -
I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant or "sacred" to being more human, because then I think it becomes easier to feel like poetry belongs to us, is for us, is from us.
Sarah Kay -
If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.
Thomas Nagel