Barry Neil Kaufman Quotes
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
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I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
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You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.
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You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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What sentence shall be given on mine? Of man, As ill or well God means me, well or ill Shall judgment pass upon me : but of God, If God himself be righteous or be God, Who being unrighteous were but god of hell, The sentence given shall judge me just...
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Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
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I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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'Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not.
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Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
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I want to single out Kathryn Hahn's performance in Jill Soloway's film 'Afternoon Delight,' which in my opinion should have been nominated for an Oscar. I think it's one of the greatest female performances I've ever seen on screen, and I think she's wildly talented.
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Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
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It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.
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We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.
