Nancy Pearcey Quotes
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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.
G. Willow Wilson -
It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
Ted Nelson -
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch -
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando -
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
Umberto Eco -
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
Walter Lord -
I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
B. R. Hayden -
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon
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No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
Alexandru C. Cuza -
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks -
However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
Oscar Wilde
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Riding a horse is like flying a plane, they're not machines but it's a lot of hours, a lot of time to go into building the relationship.
Ben Maher -
I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
Tatiana Maslany -
Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
Jane Austen -
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
Nancy Pearcey