Keith Henson Quotes

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Keith Henson

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• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Path

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Money
  • Want
  • Company

• Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Goals
  • Consistent
  • Realistic

• Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Everyone
  • Wedding
  • Cost

• You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • You
  • Chance
  • Magic

• In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Intertribal aggression, escalating in some cultures to limited warfare, is common enough to be regarded as a general characteristic of hunter-gatherer social behavior.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn’t part of a small enough minority. So now I’m a Jewish lesbian vegan.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Small
  • Lesbian
  • Vegan

• I obey nature, I never presume to command her. The first principal in art is to copy what one sees.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Art
  • Nature

• One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Time takes away the grief of men.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Time
  • Men
  • Grief

• My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • She
  • American
  • Grandmother

• For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Book

• I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Faith

• History is the science of things which are not repeated.

  

  Paul Valery
  • History
  • Science

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• There is such a difference between life and theory.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life

• Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Achievement
  • Lessons

• I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Steal
  • Shake
  • Holmes

• Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

  

  Keith Henson