Human Quotes
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
Karen Armstrong -
At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other's differences to help tell our stories together.
Michael Arden
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch -
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
Octave Mirbeau -
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver -
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
Sada Thompson -
We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
Billy Joel -
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
Harold Nicolson
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
Ralph Steadman -
We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
Earl Blumenauer -
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann -
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson -
I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
Garth Davis -
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H. L. Mencken
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
Natalie Dormer -
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.
George Meany -
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie -
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham -
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
Sam Shepard -
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Salman Rushdie -
Big stories need human stakes.
Aaron Swartz -
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel -
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden