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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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a Judge's chamber can believe in an unprejudiced point of view but, simply in self-interest, the biographer must try for one, or make us believe he has, or tell us that he hasn't.
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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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How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
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I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.
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I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.
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We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.
