Unnatural Quotes - Page 5

• If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Intellectual, Trying, Actors

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• I don't mind talking about a football game - that's fine. I don't want Christians to be unnatural. But I do want to hear them talking fully, freely and naturally of the things of the Lord in their own lives too.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Football, Talking

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• I think some dogs may like the attention of being dressed up by their humans because they interpret it as affection, but unless it's something that you've made the dog used to from the time it was a puppy, it's probably going to always feel a little weird and unnatural to the dog. This doesn't mean I think people should never dress their dogs up as long as they do it for the right reasons. If you're putting booties and a coat on your dog to protect it from the weather, then that's a pretty legitimate reason.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.

  Al Pacino

  Iraq, Weight, Kind

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

  Sergio Leone

  People, Stories, Want

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, America, Luther

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• One of the great things about the film being so unusual and provocative is the filmmaker to me doesn't seem to have a definite opinion on the rights or wrongs or the immorality of behaviors and systems, he just presents a set of very unusual circumstances and asked the audience to partake in the judging of what feels right or wrong or what feels natural and unnatural.

  Colin Farrell

  Rights, Judging, Opinion

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Television

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!

  Indira Gandhi

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Source: sangam.org

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• An entrepreneur... is a person of action, one who possesses an unnatural overload of two attributes: optimism and determination. Because entrepreneurs are optimistic, they don't see barriers; because they're determined, they never quit. Individuals who posses extreme amounts of optimism and determination get things done.

  Jim Clifton

  Determination, Optimistic, Two

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• We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Simple, Yield

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• Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

  Adam Levine

  Yoga, People, Hours

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• The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Attitude, Catholic, Church

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galeststski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fun, Thinking, Grandparent

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• Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways for the genes from two men to result in a child, their doing so is an entirely natural event.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Men, Two

  A.C. Grayling (2010). “The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Trash, Existence

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Way, Natural, Dangerous

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• And that's just a terrifying and terrifying thing. And all the photographers and, you know, it's a different, unnatural setting that no one can prepare you for. But, you know, I just try and have as much fun as I can for as long as it lasts because I know it's a privilege.

  Debra Messing

  Fun, Long, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• What I really mean is that actors do the interview process because they have to. It's a good bargain: If I can do this part then I'll sell it. I just wish it wasn't me who had to do it because it feels very unnatural.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mean, Wish, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

  Michael Palmer

  Love, Age, Television

  Michael Palmer (2007). “The Fifth Vial”, p.34, Macmillan

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• There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

  John Adams

  Fighting, Men, League

  John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.

  Jack London

  Men, Earth, Faces

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

  Sigmund Freud

  Behavior

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• A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

  Adam Smith

  Earth, Generations, Absurd

  Adam Smith (1964). “Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms”

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• It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Impossible, Appetite

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