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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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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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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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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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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Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.
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We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
