Elliott Sober Quotes

I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

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• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

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• I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

  

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• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

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• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

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• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

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• People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.

  

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  

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• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

  

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• When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

  

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• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

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• Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

  

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• I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.

  

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• The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

  

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• I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

  

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• The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Problem
  • Feels
  • Speak

• I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

  

  Elliott Sober
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  • Necessity