Felix Dennis Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
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I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
