"You have to assert something about yourself in……" — Dennis Potter
"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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38 Quotes by Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter has 38 quotes on this site.
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A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things…
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Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh,…
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
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Everything we do has consequences.
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
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More Assert Quotes
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,…
— Cecil Beaton
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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person…
— Alfred Adler
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The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of…
— David Cameron
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
— Albert Camus
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil…
— Albert Camus
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day…
— Barack Obama
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
— George Washington
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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