Julian Baggini Quotes

Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.

Julian Baggini

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I fancy myself as a bit of a groover.

Jo Cox

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For years, my marriage to Prince was mine. The idea of exposing myself to the world... was terrifying.

Mayte Garcia

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The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.

John Sununu

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I have met people on the subway who have told me the most profound stories, and I am convinced we all have something to teach each other if we just slow down long enough to hear the message.

Amanda de Cadenet

I AmPeopleMeSlowEnoughLong

When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The Groundlings. I studied acting. Did sketch comedy in L.A.

Simon Helberg

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When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.

Mike Pompeo

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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Minna Antrim

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They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

Jay London

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One of my first bartending gigs was on Santa Monica Boulevard at Doug Weston's Troubadour, a very famous live music venue.

Jon Taffer

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The Chapultepec Accord is a pact among concessionaires to protect concessions.

Denise Dresser

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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

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I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Dean Kamen

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