Point Of View Quotes - Page 34

• I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Views, Different

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I think it's my job to like any character I play - to understand and appreciate a character, to look at the world as much as possible from their point of view. I don't look at it just technically: learn the lines, figure out what gestures I want to bring and play, and that's it. I like to learn as much as I can about the person, and see what happens.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.

  Scott Glenn

  Smart, Views, Giving

  "Scott Glenn on serial killers, Alan Shepard, and almost ending up on Sons Of Anarchy". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. May 4, 2015.

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• The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

  David Hare

  Russia, Views, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Views, Icons, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

  Daniel Quinn

  Views, Crow, Special

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• It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Mean, Views, Desire

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 232), 1963.

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• If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Views, Talking

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• From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.

  Jeff Goodell

  Cousin, Aquifers, Air

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• Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

  Carol Tavris

  Self, Views, People

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• It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Reading, Writing

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• The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
  bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
  relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the
  cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
  thousandfold more precious.

  Gardner Murphy

  Struggle, Views, Mind

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• One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

  Brit Marling

  Heart, Character, Views

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

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• A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.

  Roseanne Barr

  Artist, Views, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.

  Judd Apatow

  Sweet, Fun, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

  Carl Sagan

  Errors, Views, Rigidity

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 184, 1980.

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• I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.

  Brian Schmidt

  Wine, Views, Done

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• My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so — from both the ethical and political points of view — had to be faced in all its gravity.

  Isser Harel

  Country, Mean, Views

  isser harel (1975). “the house on garibaldi street”

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• It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

  Alan Kay

  Views, Perspective

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• The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, War, Patriotic

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• Truth is only a question of point of view.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Truth, Views, Truth Is

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• We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Reality, Men, Vanity

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson", edited by Linda Lear, (p. 91), 1999.

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• To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view.

  Rachel Carson

  Garden, Views, Years

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fall, Mean, Blessing

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons", p. 153-154, 1949.

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