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.
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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.
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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.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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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.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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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.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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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.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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'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.
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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.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
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Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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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.
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He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done
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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.
