Julian Baggini Quotes

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

Julian Baggini

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.

John Francis

SilenceTalkingMeanTwoUpTown

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Anna Friel

YouActHidingTakeSecondEither

I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.

Sufjan Stevens

MusicSpiritualMeBelieveLanguage

I was always into bluegrass as a kid. Basically, I like music that has a basic simple structure and that has a lot of emotion and feel. Bluegrass and other old time music fits the bill, as well as what became punk - they both kind of have a similar framework.

Tommy Ramone

MusicTimeSimpleFeelKindEmotion

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

Russell Pearce

ConstitutionImmigrationAbsenceLaws

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lucinda Williams

HappinessPeopleObstaclesPersonal

I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.

Jason Wiles

LifeSportsDayFootballThought

Why wouldn't - how couldn't - an author care about how his or her books look?

Jonathan Safran Foer

CareLookWhyHerBooksHow

Every summer's mine.

DJ Khaled

SummerMineEvery

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

Demetri Martin

ComedyOldYearsStartedGoingFan

I think anybody can cook if they take the time.

Coolio

TimeThinkTakeCookI Think

There are many types of economic data, but the type considered by Rob Engle and myself is know as time series.

Clive Granger

TimeMyselfDataKnowEconomicMany

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