Ida Lupino Quotes
'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
Quotes to Explore
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
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From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave - nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
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My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, 'Those things that hurt instruct!' I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
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Read each tweet about 95 times before you send it. Look at every Instagram post about 95 times before you send it.
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My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.
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'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
