Montgomery Clift Quotes

A man should be what he can do.

Montgomery Clift

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• If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Life
  • Live

• Once I'm comfortable with someone, I'm not reserved. I'm a compulsive confessor.

  

  Jennifer Connelly

• As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

  

  Liam Neeson
  • Action

• Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Lives
  • Source
  • Matters

• I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • Football
  • Lucky

• I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Easy

• I see not the shadow of a reason to conclude that their the sexes' virtues should differ in respect to their nature. In fact, how can they, if virtue has only one eternal standard? I must therefore, if I reason consequentially, as strenuously maintain that they must have the same simple direction as that there is a God.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • God
  • Nature
  • Respect

• When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Work
  • Media
  • Avoid

• Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.

  

  Craig Owens Chiodos
  • Photograph
  • Chains
  • Endless

• Of course we're still having the concert. Don't let a little rain ruin your night.

  

  Jo Dee Messina
  • Night
  • Rain
  • Littles

• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Causes
  • Avoid
  • Compromises

• First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • People
  • Guy
  • Style

• If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Fine
  • Speculation

• I'm an ice cream lover, but anytime it's show day, I have to cancel out all dairy because it isn't good for vocalists.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Lover
  • Cancel
  • Vocalists

• Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture: it is right therefore, that those who are studying their profession should be aware that there is no short road to knowledge; and that observation on the diseased living, examination of the dead, and experiments upon living animals, are the only sources of true knowledge; and that inductions from these are the sole bases of legitimate theory.

  

  Astley Cooper
  • Idea
  • Theory
  • Profession

• Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

  

  Melvin Van Peebles
  • Worry
  • Luxury
  • Funky

• …Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

  

  Curtis W. Fentress
  • Building
  • Notion
  • Architects

• Paradoxically, we often feel like this false self is our natural state, the way we “should be.” This could be our addiction or attachment to being that way. We become so accustomed to being our false self that our Real Self feels guilty, like something is wrong, that we shouldn’t feel real and alive. To consider changing this problem is frightening.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Guilty
  • Addiction
  • Should Be

• Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.

  

  Alexander Moody Stuart
  • Christ
  • Everything
  • Should Be

• A man should be what he can do.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Should Be