David Malet Armstrong Quotes
The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
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I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.
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The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.
