Daniel Dennett Quotes
We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.
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I can't tell you some of the things I did as a teenager, but some folks didn't give up on me.
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
