Intellectual Quotes
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I was a woman in a man`s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
Sydney J. Harris
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The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
Norman Cousins
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Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.
Louise Talma
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation
Charles Frankel
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it
Thomas Sowell
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure
Samuel Johnson
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
G.K. Chesterton
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world`s best talents and greatest ideas.
Jack Welch
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Look, I`m not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
Helmut Newton
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
Albert Einstein
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Tell me I`m beautiful, it`s nothing. Tell me I`m intellectual - I know it. Tell me I`m funny and it`s the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.
Julie Newmar
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[when asked if he wished he had a different profession] Oh, all writers wish that. That`s why we become writers. We want to do something active but we can`t. Paul Johnson, in his "History of the 20th Century", says all the great crimes are committed by in...
David Mamet
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The Green Berets (1968) made $7,000,000 in the first three months of its release. This so-called intellectual group aren`t in touch with the American people, regardless of [J. William Fulbright`s] blatting, and Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern and Ted ...
John Wayne
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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 ho...
John Hurt
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I am considered to be an intellectual actor and I also am one inasmuch as I want to be aware of what I am doing. But I never try to influence the writing of the manuscript.
Max Sydow
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[after he heard that Smokey and the Bandit (1977) was the favourite film of director Alfred Hitchcock]: I have had people who were very intellectual and my heroes, that have quietly said to me, "I loved Smokey and the Bandit!" And I said, "It`s alright be...
Burt Reynolds
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(On her new film Strip Search (2004) (TV)) "I think it`s important to see. It`s a real violation, and it forces people to get emotionally involved in something that`s intellectual and political".
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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I am politically incorrect, that`s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won`t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn`t going to love you all the time.
Mel Gibson
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There`s a big intellectual aspect that`s kind of lacking, " she says of acting in films. "Right now I supplement that through being in school. I`m not sure I`d be happy if I was just acting. I haven`t explored a lot of other avenues. Hopefully I`ll figure...
Natalie Portman
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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good Kung Fu film.
Werner Herzog
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[on Quentin Tarantino doing his Top Gun (1986) speech in the film Sleep with Me (1994)] Important lesson learned. Intellectual properties can be taken from you if you put them in the air. Result is to never speak to anyone else ever again and withdraw fro...
Roger Avary
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Love isn`t intellectual - it`s visceral.
Kelly McGillis
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(on her job on "Wheel") It`s not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
Vanna White
