Daniel Dennett Quotes
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Women drive box office.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
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The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.
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People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
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What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
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Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.
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The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
