Facts Quotes - Page 15

• The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Excuse You, Ideas, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Athlete, Fighting

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.

  Ian Mckellen

  Inspiration, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

  Tim Scott

  Thinking, Government, Matter

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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• That's actually pretty tame, but the fact that it was coming from this unexpected adorable little 17-year-old, I thought I'd be getting a letter about her first rock show, but it's nothing like that - she gives me a tampon. It's a true testament to how the majority of our fan base - and I say this in the most respectful and best way I can - they're little freaks.

  Lzzy Hale

  Rocks, Years, Adorable

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

  Burton Silverman

  Two, People, Magic

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• I love the fact that this art might somehow affect the way people see, and thus open a window on the world.

  Burton Silverman

  Art, People, World

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• There are atheists, and I love them. In fact, I died for them.

  Frank Turek

  Atheist, Died

  Frank Turek (2014). “Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case”, p.143, NavPress

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• I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither should you. In fact, that's the point. I believe that a young woman's decision to have sex, or not, shouldn't impact how she's seen as a moral actor.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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• Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

  Heinz Fischer

  Climate, Cost, Damage

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• It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Real, Yesterday, Essentials

  Doug Jenness, Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Ernest Mandel, Socialist Workers Party. National Education Dept (1985). “Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Promise, Democracy, Phrases

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• A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

  Fanny Kemble

  People, Giving, House

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• I really comprehend the fact that some of what I have to say sounds a little weird. But the more and more I purge myself of the stuff that had my focus so turned away from God, the more I shred myself, the more I have a greater connection to God. And what I know now that I didn't know then is that's why I'm here.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Focus, Sound, Connections

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• It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dream, Civilization, Needs

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• Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

  Ekaterina Gordeeva

  Family, Simple, Important

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• True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.

  Zenkei Shibayama

  Effort, Mind, Naked

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• FACT: You CAN make money doing what you love! Even in a down economy!

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Doing What You Love, Making Money, Economy

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• I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Couple, Hate, Ocean

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• To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Errors, Data, World

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• Many of those who scoff at the trustworthiness of the Bible do so completely overlooking the fact that thousands of archaeological discoveries have affirmed the historical reliability of the Bible.

  Charlie Campbell

  Discovery, Historical, Reliability

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• There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Writing, Names

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• We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

  Ahad Ha'am

  War, Preparation, Needs

  "Wrestling with Zion" by Ahad Ha'am,

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• One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

  Harry S. Truman

  Rewards, Institutions, Difficulty

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.166, University of Missouri Press

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