E.D. Baker Quotes

Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.

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• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Good
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• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Men
  • America
  • Rest

• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  

  Sam Houston
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  • Texas
  • Class

• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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  • Privilege

• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • She
  • Girl

• Thought makes reality.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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  • Thought
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• When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Situation

• Poetry is the deification of reality.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • May
  • Childhood
  • Grow

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Life
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• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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  • Real
  • May

• Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Try
  • Goodness

• Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • May
  • Day
  • Sports

• We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

  

  Vijay
  • Practice
  • Enjoy
  • Dancing

• Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Soul
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• My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Life
  • World

• Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.

  

  E.D. Baker
  • Men
  • May
  • Reality