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Denis Dutton Quotes

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: February 9, 1944 - December 28, 2010

Topics

Beauty Experience Try Out Figure

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

You Lightning Twice United Event

A lot of Wynonna is what I wish I could be. I don't like confrontation. I'm pretty polite. But I think she's the side of me that, if I could be free, that's who I'd be.

Melanie Scrofano

Me Free Think Wish She I Wish

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Robert Grosseteste

Meals Your Any Forbid Strictly

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

Home Day Death Face Comedy You

The sound of 'Take Her Up to Monto' and 'Hairless Toys' is the sound of me and the producer in the studio doing whatever we like. There is no reference. It's too easy to be referential now; I'm trying to find something else.

Me Doing Trying Easy Find Now

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

Live Healthy Rule Percent Then

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Lord George Gordon

Power Beard New Shaving Followers

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

Love Live Moment People World Care

I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.

Work Look Looks First Impressions Up

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Me Luck Ending Up Where Element

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

Antonio Damasio

Life Thoughts Thought Minds Hold

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.

Susana Martinez

Girl Day Growing Up Border Growing

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