Thomas Nagel Quotes

equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.

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• I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Smart
  • Surprise
  • Known

• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Afraid
  • Dragons
  • Ghosts

• I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Why
  • Help
  • Mistakes

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Country
  • American
  • Happy

• What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Book

• I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Found

• 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Films

• I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Write
  • Serve
  • Skeletons

• Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Political
  • Party
  • Name

• I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Mind
  • Why

• There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce c. 1880, when Munch started to paint series of landscapes in fresh colors

  

  Edvard Munch

• Ambedkar is my Father in Economics. He is true celebrated champion of the underprivileged. He deserves more than what he has achieved today. However he was highly controversial figure in his home country,though it was not the reality. His contribution in the field of economics is marvelous and will be remembered forever..!

  

  Amartya Sen
  • Country
  • Home
  • True

• Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.

  

  Lope de Vega

• The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Great
  • Business
  • Law

• Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Science

• When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

  

  Comte de Lautreamont
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Action

• I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world with it. Romy did all those writing sessions. I would love to do what Romy's done and experience that other side of the pop machine. It sounds terrifying and, at times, a little bit soulless. That's a real pet peeve of mine, when people talk about songwriting in a cynical way. But having said that I still want to do it, just to know what it's like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Heart
  • English
  • Speak

• equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Real
  • Action
  • Moral