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Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
Rhys Ifans
Me
Heart
Strange
Become
Simply
Intellectual
Where
Process
Acting
I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
Richard Attenborough
Me
Sense
Able
About
Constraints
Fact
Outside
Never
Deal
Makes
Intellectual
Erudition
Any
Things
Ken
University
U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.
Richard Grenell
Peace
World
Power
United Nations
World Peace
Think
Side
East
East Side
About
New
Like
Academics
Foreign
Ambassador
Intellectual
Discussions
Upper
Nations
Where
New Yorkers
Place
United
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Richard Reeves
Someone
His
Intellectual
Handicap
Lowering
Who
Mundane
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Richard Rorty
History
Think
Books
Kind
Ideas
Intellectual
History Books
Just
Being
Interested
Utopian
Thing
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
Robert B. Laughlin
Education
Needs
Together
School
Mother
Parents
Met
Other
Our
Would
Would-Be
Some
About
Particularly
Schoolteacher
Concerned
Private
Intellectual
Private School
Formal
Formal Education
Far
Who
Professional
Even
Start
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Robert Bork
Fashion
Law
Our
Moral
Winds
Most
Concept
Vulnerable
Commands
Intellectual
Which
Then
Basic
School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Robert C. Merton
Work
Music
Mathematics
Me
School
Passion
First
Important
Favorite
Brooklyn
League
Although
Dodgers
Were
Subject
Intellectual
Lot
Up
Arts
While
Little
Sand
Rooted
Interests
Little League
Fun
Baseball
Growing
Growing Up
Played
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Robert Graves
Love
Finance
Call
Intellectual
Began
Human
Hold
Warm
Human Love
Perversion
Now
Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
King
Every
Himself
Brain
Intellectual
Intellectually
Should
Reason
Every Man
Honest
Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Great
Man
Integrity
Courage
Intelligence
Honor
Will
Free
Nation
State
Independent
Citizens
Above
Support
Force
Pillars
Intellectual
Brave
Should
Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Life
Religion
Humanity
Nothing
Conviction
Else
Divine
Intellectual
Theory
Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for.
Robert J. Sawyer
Robot
Building
Become
Our
Unless
Once
Machines
Definition
Absolutely
Outwit
Longer
New
Sure
Hand
Intellectual
Prudence
Upper
Upper Hand
Going
Quite
Literally
Cannot
Then
Now
Eventually
Right
Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.
Robert J. Shiller
Entertainment
Fate
Lost
Stars
Our
Determine
Only
Idea
Still
Scientifically
Intellectual
Yes
Persist
Currency
Newspapers
Popular
Challenged
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Motivational
Life
Some
Devoted
Exercise
Intellectual
Succeeded
Wholly
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Robert M. Hutchins
College
Cover
His
Intellectual
Graduate
Graduation
Presented
The major public goals in my life are intellectual goals. There are various philosophical things that I want to work on and work out.
Robert Nozick
Life
Work
Goals
My Life
Philosophical
Out
Various
Major
Intellectual
Want
Public
Work Out
Things
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
Roland Allen
Spiritual
Men
Met
Apprehension
Cried
Those
Aloud
Were
Intellectual
Moved
Them
Much
Apostles
Whom
Illumination
Need
I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.
Romelu Lukaku
People
Mind
Other
Ability
Something
Football
Qualities
Prove
Intellectual
Just
Want
Play
Play Football
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
Funny
Confidence
Creative
Simple
Clever
Ambition
Think
Find
Finds
Pretty
More
Instincts
Sophisticated
Particularly
Suppressing
Audience
Intellectual
Tastes
Certainly
Aware
Wide
Inner
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
Roy Jenkins
Class
Party
Would
Fade
Democratic
Democratic Party
Without
Intellectual
Quickly
Movement
Social
Roots
Working
Working-Class
Deep
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
Ruben Blades
Life
Mother
Everybody
City
Student
Songs
Identified
Because
Were
Intellectual
Unemployed
Worker
Grandmother
Professional
Descriptions
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
Intelligence
Cripple
Intellectual
Substitute
Cynicism
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
Sam Brownback
You
Secular
Values
Setting
Everybody
Know
Intellectual
May
Formed
Forward
Now
I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
Sam Harris
Faith
September
Neuroscience
Doing
Intellectual
End
Did
Essentially
Happened
Moment
Actually
Career
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
Samuel E. Morison
Quality
Honesty
Honesty Is
Free
More
Countries
Does
Always
Nor
Intellectual
Historians
Expect
Than
Expected
Get
Often
Public
Much
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