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“The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.”

Thinking Knows World Want Firsts Made Stills Matter Character Facts Film Ability Watches Audience Type Directors Storytelling Despite Aliens Mastery Another World

Author:Nicholas Ozeki

“Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.”

Knows Should Writing Mean Courses Magic Advice Century Example Despite France Odd Immortal Advise Rumours

Author:Michael Scott

“Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.”

Persons Christian Evil Chance Essence Remains Illness Despite Orthodox Misfortunes God Image Reverie Devilish Disfigurement

Author:John of Kronstadt

“That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.”

Way May Bigs Humanity Sound Differences Common Cities Share Diversity Longing Despite Vague Common Humanity

Author:Rob Bell

“Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.”

Made I Can Belief Comedy Player Team Jokes Despite Boston Marathon Team Player Boston Marathon

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Here's a man who was twice elected to the most powerful position on Earth despite needing a TelePrompTer to correctly identify what year it was.”

Men Years Earth Funny Powerful Position Despite Most Powerful Reaganomics

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“Laws never protect anyone, despite claiming to be all about protecting the public. Each legal restriction only strengthens the power of mafia and crime organising who step in to help people do what the law says they can't do, in every country.”

People Country Helping Law Steps Crime Protect Despite Restriction Mafia

Author:Terre Thaemlitz

“Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.”

Self Difficult Realizing Achievement Despite Vulnerable Aspiration Notable Dissatisfaction Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.”

“Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.”

Writing Sometimes Team Promise Checks Despite Investors

Author:Sam Altman

“I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time to introduce and explain, and which terms I would not introduce, despite the fact that I find them useful in my other work, in teaching, or in other activist contexts.”

Facts Wanted Term Teaching Reader Despite Activist Introducing Take Time Unfamiliar

Author:Dean Spade

“Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.”

Writing Humans Different War Bigs Happens Life Is Stuff Novel Our Lives Majors Endure Despite Keep Going Big Things Bombing

Author:Robert Dessaix

“There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.”

Thinking Way Mind Might Would Be Process Differences Boring Despite Mind Blowing Thought Process

Author:Matthew Carter

“Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.”

People Ifs Humans Persons Character Facts Film Theater Despite Right Thing Motive Decent Sarcastic Nasty Amusing Curmudgeon

Author:Woody Allen

“I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.”

Wells Doe Bigs Fans Sticks Despite Queens Carrie Wales

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.”

Thinking Sometimes Facts Reality Seems Certain Reading Situation Events Materials Mass Despite Statistics Capture

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Despite being extremely professional, Michael Caine has a giggle which was lethal for me because once you catch his eyes, once you realize the other person is a giggler too, it's curtains.”

Persons Eye Realizing Despite His Eyes Curtains Giggle

Author:Emily Mortimer

“Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.”

Years Believe Earth Half Century Thousand Six Years Ago Insight Neighbor Despite Cosmos Thousand Years Antiquity Glue Sumerians

Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.”

Given Powerful Produce Creatures Aim Constant Despite Manage Censorship Ridicule Resilient

Author:Seth

“Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.”

Technology Heard Materials Claims Hearing Contrary Nuclear Despite Experts Briefing

Author:John Linder

“But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.”

Seems Difficult Greater Progress Essentials Meaningful Despite Ingredients Lacking Meaningful Life Affluence Affluent

Author:Alex Campbell

“Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.”

School Team Ignorance Months Balls Despite Convince Coward Mates Fierce Rugby Team Mate Ignorance And Fear Playing Rugby

Author:Peter Cook

“Keep the faith...that the best is yet to come. Keep the faith that the next extraordinary version of you is being crafted even now...that nothing can deter you from keeping your commitment to achieving your goals set for today...that you can better your best! Keep the faith. Move forward in spite of your fears and despite any evidence to the contrary. Believe that IT'S POSSIBLE!!”

Believe Today Moving Next Goal Achieve Evidence Commitment Extraordinary Contrary Versions Moving Forward Despite Spite Keep The Faith Achieving Your Goals Keep Believing Best Is Yet To Come

Author:Les Brown

“Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition- will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is what all heroes (including you) are here to do.”

World May Littles Self Facts Helping Hands Life Is Doubt Imagine Hero Including Despite Saving Opposition True Self Fatigue Save The World Being Your True Self

Author:Martha Beck

“Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.”

World Government Past Attention Serious Months Citizens Protect Increase Despite Genocide Sudan Darfur

Author:Tom Allen

“Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.”

Ifs Years Children Kids Worry Seeing Balls Ill Despite Take Me Needles Tubes Terminally Ill

Author:Eric Davis

“Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.”

Men Water Natural Growing Resources Despite Natural Resources Scarcity

Author:Steven Solomon

“The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.”

Humans Evil Human Beings Perfect Duty Pride Threat Finals Boxes Despite Greek Nobility Pandora Antigone Pandora's Box

Book:The Future of the Humanities

Source: The Future of the Humanities

“In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.”

Art Made Three Next Crazy Produce Performances Mirrors Terror Despite Chapters Quotations Obscure Literal Supplies Pseudo Next Chapter

Book:Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951

Source: Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951

“We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.”

“Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.”

Government Together Peace Differences Military Planets Despite Forged

Book:Deception Point

Source: Deception Point

“The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.”

Stills Action Danger Taxes Authority Findings Solutions Accepted Pursue Despite Alternatives Reasonable Payment

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.”

Long Reality Values Belief Results Effort Judgment Evidence Argument Scientist Contrary Despite Chains Reasoning Links Objectivity Validity Best Effort Abstaining

Author:Sam Harris

“The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.”

“Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Whole Choices Information Whole Life Despite Homosexuality Never Change New Information Some People Never Change People Never Change

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Helping Young Understanding Changed Mines Evidence Despite Never Change Open Mind Keep An Open Mind

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.”

Thinking Giving Whole Belief White Secret Core Despite Enjoyed Enlightened Racist

Author:Margo Jefferson

“There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.”

Humans Stills States Happens America Political United United States Democracy Land Worst Adventure Development Europe Incredibles Extremes Myth Experiments Despite

Author:Bruno Dumont

“There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.”

World Wells Stills Problem Turns Class Economy Alive Percent University Despite Budgets Agendas Articles Academic Entrepreneurial

Author:Tom Peters

“Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.”

Doe Light Despite Mysterious Display Screws Veils Hammers Levers Clamour

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.”

Sports Secret Military Creation Activity Circles Despite Butterfly Sections Neglected Collectors Secret Intelligence

Book:Secrecy in Britain

Source: Secrecy in Britain

“...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.”

Body Fronts Presses Meetings Conservative Opening Despite Opposition Council 1960s Benches Admission Opening Up Backbenchers

Author:Clive Ponting

“Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.”

Ability Leader Modern Tvs Evidence Contrary Despite Occupation Technological Cult Rivals Credibility Visionaries Weathermen

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.”

Technology Seasons Remains Despite Unpredictable Reminders Hurricanes Humbling

Author:Diane Ackerman

“The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.”

“A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might. If the Bush administration ever wanted to reflect on history, it might think about this.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Might Wanted Fall Military Despite Administration Bully Superpower

Author:Mark Kurlansky

“The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.”

People World Mean Sometimes Whole Shows Together Purpose Groups Behavior Despite Latin Links Competing Variation Wilson Coordinates

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.”

Children Parent Natural Effort Teach Despite Manners Good Man Good Manners Children And Parents Funny Parenting Funny Parent Being Polite Funny Mothers Day Funny Mother Mimicking Courtesy Manners

Author:Mark Twain

“The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.”

World Should Wells Facts Fashion Active Despite Generous Fashion World

Author:Miuccia Prada

“We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer data is, and that if it's vulnerable, then their business is, too, and so you see a beefing up of encryption technologies. At the same time, no programs have been dismantled at the governmental level, despite international pressure.”

Ifs Has Beens Bigs Levels Company Technology Happenings Program Pressure International Customers Despite Vulnerable Data Apples Google Big Companies Encryption

Author:Laura Poitras

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