Thomas Nagel Quotes
I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.
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My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'
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I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
