Intellectual Quotes - Page 33

• I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Clever, Ambition, Simple

  "Fears of a clown". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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• I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it—an I.Q. or the like.

  Peter Medawar

  Believe, Science, Simple

  Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

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• I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

  Portia de Rossi

  Smart, Trying, Enough

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Gay, Redneck

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

  John Hurt

  Men, Racing, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  Uma Thurman

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.

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• Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

  Henry Rollins

  Sloth, Cynicism

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• I will never do nudity. I don't care how dark and intellectual the role could be, you know...I don't care if I frickin' could get an Oscar for it, I'm not going to do it. Those accolades mean nothing to me. I don't think people deserve to see what's under my clothing. That's only for my next husband-ha-ha-ha.

  Jessica Simpson

  Husband, Mean, Dark

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Together, Purpose

  "Crowdfunder: Why Penn Jillette Hopes to Be the Anti-Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 30, 2013.

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• All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

  Amy Wright

  Spiritual, Emotional, Giving

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• My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

  Guy Ritchie

  Thinking, Sake, Violence

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• I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

  Guy Ritchie

  Thinking, Violence, Scene

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• Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.
  *It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!

  Daniel Dennett

  Support, Zombie, Doctrine

  "Consciousness Explained". Book by Daniel Dennett, p. 406, 1991.

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• I'm not like a high intellectual.

  Billy West

  Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2008.

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• Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

  Edward James Olmos

  New York, People, Doe

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• If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.

  Stephen Hawking

  Challenges, Would Be, Needs

  "Creative Art Video – Pink Terror With Stephen Hawking". Interview with Mike Barzman and Christian Swegal, www.arttherapyblog.com. March 30, 2010.

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• Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline.

  Bill Maher

  Military, Cutting, Gay

  "Maher: Reagan wrote GOP playbook" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. June 8, 2013.

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• People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons why should I demoralize the enemy by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Mean, People

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• All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stupid, Numbers, People

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• Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

  David Berlinski

  Religious, Ignorance, Dark

  David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books

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• Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm of the Future, Ron Baker has again evolved thought leadership on the critical dynamics of value and pricing. Baker's latest work, Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value, provides real-world examples and practical strategies that provide a framework for pricing optimization. His clarity of purpose and passionate call to action resonates in today's intellectual capital economy.

  Thomas Finneran

  Real, Clarity Of Purpose, Creating

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• Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.

  Colin McGinn

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing

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• The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic and practical capacities and to grow freely as an organic being, not to be kneaded and pressured into form like an inert plastic material

  Sri Aurobindo

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  Sri Aurobindo (1999). “The Human Cycle, Psychology of Social Development”, p.30, Lotus Press

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• People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Mean, Blessing, Men

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

  B. F. Skinner

  Memories, Men, Thinking

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