Anthony Daniels Quotes

• Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

  Anthony Daniels

  Real, Technique, Watches

  "A Q&A with Anthony Daniels (C3PO), touring with 'Star Wars: In Concert'". Interview with Tom Keogh, www.seattletimes.com. October 12, 2009.

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• I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

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  Appreciation, Kitchen, Appliances

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• Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

  Anthony Daniels

  Indulge In, Behavior, All Things

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• For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

  Anthony Daniels

  Mind

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• [There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

  Anthony Daniels

  Class, Dangerous, Educated

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• Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

  Anthony Daniels

  Dream, Nightmare, Results

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• Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

  Anthony Daniels

  Two, Three, Notes

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• Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

  Anthony Daniels

  Reality, Tolerance, World

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• Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

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  Men, Moral, Dictator

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• It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

  Anthony Daniels

  People, Generosity, Mind

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• If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

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  Believe, Space, People

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• Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

  Anthony Daniels

  Sex, Men, Doe

  "All Sex, All the Time". www.city-journal.org. Summer 2000.

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• The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

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  Emotional, Expression, Hysteria

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• Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

  Anthony Daniels

  Ideas, Triumph, Fantasy

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• For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

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  Law, Silence, Political

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• We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

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  Thinking, Prowess, Obvious

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• I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

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  Justice, Would Be, World

  "Policeman in Wonderland". www.city-journal.org. Spring 2000.

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• Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

  Anthony Daniels

  Hands, Years, Orchestra

  "A Q&A with Anthony Daniels (C3PO), touring with 'Star Wars: In Concert'". Interview with Tom Keogh, www.seattletimes.com. October 12, 2009.

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• In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

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  People, Criticism, Age

  "Who Killed Childhood?". www.city-journal.org. Spring 2004.

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• It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

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  Self, Age, Use

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• The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

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  Real, Peers, Problem

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• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

  Anthony Daniels

  Childhood, Modern, Britain

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Frontpage Magazine interview, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

  Anthony Daniels

  Tattoo, Men, Profound

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• All I ever wanted to do was act.

  Anthony Daniels

  Wanted

  "This is the droid you’re looking for: 10 questions with C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels". Interview with Liesl Bradner, herocomplex.latimes.com. October 6, 2009.

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• The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.

  Anthony Daniels

  Struggle, Reality, Intellectual

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