Christopher Hampton Quotes

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Rest
  • Best

• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Work
  • Important
  • High

• People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Like
  • Something
  • Voiceover

• I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Important
  • End
  • Theory

• I believe that first impressions are very important.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Believe
  • Important

• It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • True
  • Attention
  • Dreams

• The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Important
  • Service
  • Yourself

• For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Important
  • Deep
  • Boxing

• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • True
  • Man

• I don't believe that competitions are important.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Believe
  • Important

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Real

• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Action

• I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

  

  Elizabeth I
  • Heart

• I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Good
  • May
  • Earth

• To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Alien

• You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • Important
  • True