Human Quotes
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I think that you can say you love somebody like in a relationship, but I also think that to feel love for somebody else or for another human is more about a living being to a living being, a totally different thing. I don't know if people will ever totally understand what that word means until we die.
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Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
