Barry Neil Kaufman Quotes

We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.

Barry Neil Kaufman

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Enemies
  • Forgive
  • Annoy

• 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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • People
  • You
  • Judge

• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• 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.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Eyes

• A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Forgive

• It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Work
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Law
  • Judge
  • Student

• I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Believe
  • You
  • Forgive

• You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Book
  • Judge
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Wisdom
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • Believe
  • Baby
  • Judge

• 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...

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • God
  • Judge

• Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Judge

• I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Style

• From the moment I was born, I was fed propaganda. I viewed the Kim dynasty not only as our fearless protectors from the imperialist forces, but also as gods.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Fearless

• Your body hears everything your mind says.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Body

• Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Fun
  • Running
  • Rock

• We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.

  

  Barry Neil Kaufman
  • Judge
  • Forgive
  • First Place