#human

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#actually #always #back #behavior #go

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. ↗

— Anais Nin

#acted #being #come #every #fate

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. ↗

— Anais Nin

#am #first #first of all #human #i

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#been #being #decide #early #fascinating

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. ↗

— Paul Nitze

#dangerous #error #forgetting #forms #human

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did. ↗

— Paul Nitze

#clinical #could #did #ethical #experimentation

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity. ↗

— David Niven

#ever #going #humanity #i #only

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. ↗

— Larry Niven

#aids #along #childhood #come #disease

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ↗

— George Orwell

#being human #does #essence #human #perfection