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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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
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Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.
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If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.
