Human Beings Quotes - Page 40

• If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

  Michel Gondry

  Children, Boston, World

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Believe

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.

  Jaco Van Dormael

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• When I went in for the [ Embraced] DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Dvds, Years, Effort

  Source: collider.com

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• For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

  Aristotle

  Wonder, Humans, Has Beens

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• There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Two, Way, Violence

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• I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, null and even thoroughly discouraged. But I never came back in such a frame of mind, and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Mad, Confusion, Mind

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• I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

  Kim Basinger

  Running, Writing, Creative

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• In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

  Frank Deford

  Hollywood, Firsts, Humans

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• Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably appears in great literature: that men and women of all nations and places are essentially equal, and only injustice sows among them discrimination, fear, and exploitation.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Religious, Men, Racism

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• One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Dare, Strokes, Caress

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• Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

  Karel Capek

  Cat, Humans, Knows

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• The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.

  Wendy McElroy

  Powerful, Believe, Class

  "The Great Lie" by Wendy McElroy, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2003.

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• We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store windows, or just reach for the yellow pages and have them delivered. It is the same mindset at work, spreading in our world, and after a while this attitude can find nothing very special about anything or anybody, let alone whales.

  Matthew Scully

  Attitude, Our World, Offering

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.346, Macmillan

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• You know, we're all human beings, and we're not made to be alone.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Made, Humans, Knows

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• I don’t care what colour you are, I don’t care what country you’re from; we’re all human beings and fighting’s in our DNA. We get it, and we like it.

  Dana White

  Country, Fighting, Dna

  "From the margins of society to one of the world's fastest growing sports... how the UFC transformed MMA - and made Conor McGregor a star" by Martin Domin, www.mirror.co.uk. August 26, 2017.

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• I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Humans, Values

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states”

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• The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Yesterday, Understanding, Foundation

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon (2016). “The Story of Mankind: Juvenile History”, p.205, VM eBooks

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• So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  "Obama: 'A Christian by Choice'" by Kristin Brown, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2010.

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• The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Squirrels, Landscape, Littles

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• I am inspired by honest people who don't cheat others. To me the famous are those who are kind to fellow human beings and dedicate their life to charity.

  Fauja Singh

  People, Charity, Honest

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• Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.

  Robert Ringer

  Rights, Liberty, Doe

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• In the past even scientists have been led to believe that only human beings have thoughts or emotions. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth... After all, thoughts and emotions have evolutionary value.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Believe, Past, Emotion

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• Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Children, Men, Giving

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

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