Human Beings Quotes - Page 7

• If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

  Camille Flammarion

  Life, Comedy, Existence

  Camille Flammarion (1922). “Death and its mystery: before death, proofs of the existence of the soul”

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• When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”

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• The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

  Christopher Reeve

  Character, Interesting, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try not to let the material aspects of different cultures distract me from getting to the essence of the person I'm photographing. Whether it's a man or a woman. Wherever they're from, I try not to let social status or cultural background affect me or affect the person. I strip all those things away to get down to the essence of the human being, the person.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Men, Essence, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

  Spike Lee

  Stage, Humans, Bad Things

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.

  Rainn Wilson

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.

  Ridley Scott

  Disappointment, Names, Evil

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Sex, Writing, Expression

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

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• What happens when you're naked is that people get that you're really just a human being. There are parts of it that are pretty appalling, and there are parts that are okay. That's what it looks like. If you can embrace and accept what people look like in the altogether, it's not so difficult to accept them with their clothes on.

  James Cromwell

  Clothes, People, Naked

  "James Cromwell Talks STILL MINE, Playing a Lead Role, Questioning Authority, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2013.

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• So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Fighting, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You become responsible for a human being, and a lot of people talk about how they've never felt love like this before. You hear all these things before you have a child, and they're all kind of true. It's just dealing with the overwhelming responsibility of like I'm the protector of this child that affected me the most.

  Cobie Smulders

  Children, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.

  Russell Brand

  Dream, Hats, Pockets

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Character, Collaboration, Actors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have been able to play haven't been the most endearing on screen.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Mean, Order, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

  Robert Pattinson

  Normal, Being There, Possibility

  Source: collider.com

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• All human beings have a great agency for being part of a team.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Team, Agency, Humans

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Talking, Drawing

  "Conversation: Graphic Novelist, Director Marjane Satrapi". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2012.

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• Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Forever, Individuality

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• Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Distance, Thinking

  "Freedom and the Unknown". www.adyashanti.org. 2002.

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• What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

  Roger Ebert

  Vegetarian Diet, Should, Periods

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012”, p.188, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Unique, Talking

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

  Rosa Parks

  Rights, Citizens, Humans

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• Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

  Ray Comfort

  Wise, Cities, Littles

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• I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.

  Taylor Swift

  Self, Want, Vain

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• The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Teaching, Men, Lust

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