Human Beings Quotes - Page 35

• To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.

  Fred Allen

  Skins, Humans, Items

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• I think that as human beings we are all different. On a third dimensional level we're all different but there are two things we share in common... one is birth, and we know about that because we've been through it, we understand it, and the other is death.

  James Van Praagh

  Thinking, Two, Different

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

  Harlan Ellison

  People, Upset, Quality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Bunnies, Audience

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

  Yann Martel

  Sex, Crazy, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

  Milla Jovovich

  Needs, Sand Dunes, Mongolia

  Interview with Michelle Rodriguez, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Taken, Long, Adults

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Soul, Visionaries, Moments

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• Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

  Alante Kavaite

  Order, Issues, Focus

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Degrees, Lives Of Others

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.445, Psychology Press

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• I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

  Hugh Herr

  Technology, Views, Broken

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• To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Ignorant, Important

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.51

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• Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Punctuation Marks, Sentences, Humans

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• We're only here for one reason: to wake up... To realize yourself doesn't mean you are perfect as a human being. It means you are willing to bear the imperfections and not sell out to them.

  Eli Jaxon-Bear

  Mean, Perfect, Wake Up

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Law, Subtle

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

  Marilyn French

  Believe, Authority, Equal

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• The Human Values should be regarded as basic requirements for every human being. In spreading the message of these values to the world, you should all cooperate with each other and act in harmony.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Messages, World, Requirements

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• Wherefrom are human values to be derived and how are they to be developed? Human values are born along with human birth. They exist in union. Unfortunately, man today separates himself from human values and yet wants to live as a human being. To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Men, Unions

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• For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Would Be, Levels, Want

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• The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Spiritual, Ideas, Profound

  Daisaku, Ikeda (1982). “Life: An Enigma, a Precious Jewel”, Kodansha America

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• There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

  David Foreman

  World, Limits, Honorable

  Interview with Derrick Jensen, www.derrickjensen.org. December 4, 2004.

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• It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment

  Huston Smith

  Energy, Atoms, Sun

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• Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. Real love is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is awareness of his or her needs and longings- past, present and future. It is unselfish, giving and caring.

  James Dobson

  Appreciation, Real, Caring

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• Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.

  Laozi

  Perfect, Essentials, Humans

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• Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Art, Expression, Defense

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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