Human Beings Quotes - Page 33

• As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Color, Should, Categories

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• I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Skin Color, Skins, Care

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• America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

  Suze Orman

  Fall, Home, Broken Spirit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.

  James Carville

  Political, Dimensions, Nuance

  "Clinton". www.pbs.org. February 20, 2012.

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• Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

  PJ Harvey

  Heart, Soul, Records

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Wherever there's a human being there's going to be somebody that tries to hold you back.

  Gloria Estefan

  Trying, Being There, Humans

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

  Gloria Estefan

  Race, Progress, Overcoming

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Men, Inhumanity To Man, World

  "Musical Legend Herbie Hancock Fuses Jazz, Global Rhythms". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 16, 2010.

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• Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Being Human, Jew, Humans

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• Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Ideas, Scratches

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• Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Running, Honor, Dying

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• Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

  Peter Benchley

  Sharks, Target, Grudge

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• Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Solitude, Doe

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.41, Image

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• I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Eight, Human Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1671, Delphi Classics

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• Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Friends, Insects, Draws

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• It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Identity, Titles

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• The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Trouble, Natural, Humans

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• All human beings are entrepreneurs.

  Reid Hoffman

  Entrepreneur, Humans

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.3, Random House

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• If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.

  Kelly Ripa

  Exercise, Next Day, One Day

  "Kelly: Live & Uncensored". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 7, 2012.

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• It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.

  Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

  Men, Brain, Salmon

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• My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

  Seal

  Communication, Compassion, Overwhelming Desire

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• Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

  Henry Fairlie

  Bed, Looks, Breakfast

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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• To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Curriculum, Force, Humans

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• Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

  Richard Rorty

  Vocabulary, Truth Is, Made

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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• What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it

  Henri Nouwen

  Bridges, Expectations, Despair

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