"I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe."

-- Daniel Dennett

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Roles Quotes

“Sometimes I feel like Iâ€™m actually on the wrong planet. Itâ€™s great when Iâ€™m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, â€˜What the hell am I doing here?”
“JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.”
“Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.”
“The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does Dutch turn to Anglo-Saxon and eventually English? Morphology is actually taking place through things like Twitter or GChat today, where we're changing how things are spelled, and those spellings are accepted as standard now. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.”
“I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.”
“It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain..”
“Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.”

Source : "My first boss: Naomie Harris". Interview with Tola Awogbamiye, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2003.
“I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.”

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