Geoffrey Chew Quotes
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.
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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightness are always created by the conscious activity of the sages.
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Though never for an instant faltering in my opinion that Augustus Fink-Nottle was Nature's final word in cloth-headed guffins, I liked the man, wished him well.
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Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.
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Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.
