Daniel Everett Quotes
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.Daniel Everett
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
Edgar Ramirez -
Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
Laura Bush -
You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell -
One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
Jack Keane
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T -
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
Walter Murch -
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
M. Night Shyamalan
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga -
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Ralph Bakshi -
You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
Abbe Pierre
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In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.
Chris Van Allsburg -
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
Simone de Beauvoir -
You can't quantify everything a player does to win games.
Derek Jeter -
The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The pluralists are far larger. Those of us who believe in a world where we live together - we're far larger. The problem is we haven't made our case compelling across the world yet.
Eboo Patel -
The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
Alicia Keys -
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett