Daniel Dennett Quotes
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.
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I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree probably Caesar Baronius: 'The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.'
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'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.
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But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.
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But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
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This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
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Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
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This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
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Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
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I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.
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Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!
