Dennis Potter Quotes

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Dennis Potter

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• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Tough
  • Him
  • Opponent

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Dumb

• I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Important
  • Old

• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Culture
  • Nice
  • Door

• The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Interesting
  • Stop
  • Picture

• We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Opinion

• My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Work
  • Great
  • Father

• Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Chinese
  • Factory
  • Laptop

• The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Art
  • Think
  • Modern

• It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Football
  • Beginning

• Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Identity
  • Europe
  • European

• I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • May
  • Want
  • Know

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Best

• My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • God
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Suffering

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• The energies are what blows my mind. They drag everything out of you, and sometimes your own soul. You really have to mentally be stable, or else you'll lose it.

  

  Zachary Alexander Bagans
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Blow

• Metaphor is embodied in language.

  

  Dennis Potter