Daniel Dennett Quotes
A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
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A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.
