Quotes by Anthony Daniels - Page 1

All I ever wanted to do was act.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
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Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Cruelty
Eternal
Spring
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Modernity is the most transient of qualities.
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Quality
Modernity
Transient
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It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.
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Hard
Ideology
Tradition
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We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
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Made
Star Wars Movie
Suffering
Lot
Seem
Suffer
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[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.
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Class
Dangerous
Educated
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
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Film
Film Set
Very Cool
Wells
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For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.
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Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Books And Movies
Grease
Mindless
Overweight
Philosopher
Call
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I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Appreciation
Smile
Appliances
Greater
Kitchen
Played
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Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
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Men
Dictator
Moral
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The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
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Men
Profound
Tattoo
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It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.
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Generosity
Mind
People
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Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Hands
Orchestra
Years
Waving
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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
All Things
Behavior
Indulge In
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I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Appearance
Conventions
Fans
Special
Appearances
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You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Concerts
Intimidated
Knows
People
People Know Go
Concert
Loath
Orchestral
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Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Dream
Nightmare
Results
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
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Britain
Childhood
Modern
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For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Law
Political
Silence
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In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Obstacles
Overcoming
Views
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In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Age
Criticism
People
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We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.
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Obvious
Prowess
Thinking
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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Angry
Notes
Tense
Three
Two
Instantly
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I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Justice
World
Would Be
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Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Doe
Struggle
Triumph
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Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
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Fantasy
Ideas
Triumph
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The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Peers
Problem
Real
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It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Age
Self
Use
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Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Mime
Real
Real Life
Technique
Watches
Gesture
Uses
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Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Reality
Tolerance
World
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It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Affair
Race
Strange
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Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Men
Civilization
Spiritual
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Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Clothes
Fashion
Pace
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If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Space
Believe
People
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The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Emotional
Expression
Hysteria
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Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Attachment
Creative
Healthy
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We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Science
Earth
Fantasy
Fiction
Gravity
Our Planet
People
Science Fiction
Thinking
Uncomfortable
Beyond
Life Science People
Finances
Planet
Possibilities
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Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Children
School
Typical
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I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Cleansing
Instance
Mad
Max
Thinking
Heading
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The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Intellectual
Reality
Struggle
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The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Law
Mean
Names
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Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Men
Doe
Sex
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If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Men
Gambling
Intelligent
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If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Doe
Favour
Should
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Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Attention
Compassion
May
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In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.
Anthony Daniels / Actor
Memories
Past
Views
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