It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.

Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.

We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

I like Halldor Laxness and Machado de Assis - people who try to understand the human condition by looking at intimate pictures of human life.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.

An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is a cop-out. You've got to go for it.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.

The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition.

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

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