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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Ben Whishaw

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Billy Wilder

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Clive Anderson

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

Gary Hamel

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

Gene Hackman

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

George Lakoff

I'd rather apologize to you for not being who you want me to be than apologize to God for not being who I should be.

Garrett McCoy

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

George Orwell

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

When I turned about 18 or 19, I was really ready to, like, stop being - stop being seen in this, like, perfect light.

Hilary Duff

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

Harry Lorayne

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Harry Lorayne

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

James McAvoy

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

Jay Mohr

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

John Mackey

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Jean Piaget

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

John Ruskin

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.

June Singer

... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone.

John Steinbeck

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

Jessica White

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

David Blunkett