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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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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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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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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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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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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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'll be ready. I'm ready right now.
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What information could be so embarrassing that a man with decades of experience in handling classified documents would risk being caught pilfering our nation's most sensitive secrets? Did these documents detail simple negligence, or did they contain something more sinister?
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I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.
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I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.
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The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.
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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!'
