Daniel Dennett Quotes

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • New York

• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Morality

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • English
  • Minds
  • Scottish

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • School
  • High
  • Kid

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Teaching
  • Coach

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Equality
  • Disease

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Want
  • Might

• The whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Choose

• I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

  

  Lauren Potter
  • People
  • Help
  • Independent

• I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Action
  • Justice
  • Crime

• When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I love how most people in 'Sixteen Candles' don't actually look their age. It adds to the movie's funky and low-budget vibe.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Independent