Daniel Dennett Quotes
A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'

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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.
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Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time.” Claire
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Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
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The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.
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I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'