Damon Lindelof Quotes

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

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• I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

  

  Capucine
  • Think
  • Man
  • Myself

• Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Mom

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Bed
  • Beat
  • Her

• Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual

• Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Acting

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • God
  • Justice
  • Military

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Truth
  • True
  • Truth Is

• It's up to the audience. It always has been.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Up
  • Always
  • Audience

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Know
  • Stress
  • Percent

• I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

  

  Adam Brody
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Date

• I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Know
  • Couple
  • Trump

• Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

  

  Banks
  • You
  • Enough
  • Brave

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

  

  Andrew Denton
  • People
  • Country
  • Faith

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• Do not demand love. Begin to love. You will be loved. It is the law and no statute can alter it. If we do not follow the law, and let the law die with the teacher, we shall become accomplices to the murderer. But if follow the law with our hearts, Bapu will live with us and through us.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • Live
  • Love
  • Law

• I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Think
  • Week

• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Yourself