Iain Pears Quotes

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

Iain Pears

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• Light
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• Philosophy
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• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Different
  • Best
  • Actor

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Day
  • Become

• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• Self-doubt kills talent.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Self-Doubt

• What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Up
  • Help
  • Community

• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • See
  • Audiences

• I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Good
  • Social Media

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Walking
  • Streets
  • Nuts

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Season

• Precognition or self-deception?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Deception

• I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Taste

• Can the president really blame Fox News for his problems?

  

  Don Lemon

• Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Intelligent
  • Planets

• Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Light