Point Of View Quotes - Page 9

• I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

  Fabian Perez

  Father, Character, Gambling

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• I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more #‎ romantic than the present day

  Fabian Perez

  Views, Nightlife, Present Day

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• From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.

  William James

  Mean, Views, Differences

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• The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Mean, Views

  "Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president".

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• No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.

  George Orwell

  Children, Views, Childhood

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

  George Orwell

  Views, Hypocrisy, Behaviour

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Views, Generations, Students

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• Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Views, Comedian

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

  Mike Royko

  Thinking, Views, Years

  "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.

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• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  Walter Pater

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Guy, Tolerance

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• Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

  Jean Houston

  Health, Eye, Reality

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• The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Animal, Views, Imagination

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• The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

  Alvar Aalto

  Light, Views, Steel

  Alvar Aalto, J. Stewart Johnson (1984). “Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York”

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• ... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Views, Tasks, May

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• I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

  James Earl Jones

  Views, Land, Knowing

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

  Max Weber

  Reality, Views, May

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.117, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

  Peter McWilliams

  Religious, Government, Views

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• I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.

  Jerry Lewis

  Thinking, Views, Talking

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• When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

  Louise Erdrich

  Women, Views, Hands

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• From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

  Susie Orbach

  Children, Fighting, Views

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

  Susie Orbach

  Views, Perspective, Political

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say". www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

  Eric Burdon

  Animal, Views

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• Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

  Kurt Russell

  Views, People, Different

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• I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

  Shannen Doherty

  Views, Southern, Baptists

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