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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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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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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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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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.
