A Quote by Will Ferrell

I don't really think in absolutes.

Will Ferrell

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Absolutes Really Think

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Will Ferrell
American - Comedian
Born: July 16, 1967

I'm basically a happy person. I'm content with my life and my wife and my family. But you do reach a point where you start to question the absolutes that are supposedly out there, and you realize that there simply are no absolutes.

Myles Kennedy

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

Hugo Black

I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really exist in a much grayer region of dreams and stuff like that, and instinct is prized in movies, it's not prized with the businessmen in movies, but movies themselves often reward instinct rather than pie charts.

Brad Bird

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Roger Penrose

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

Jennifer James

I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

Anne Lamott

I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought - that's the great danger. Every time we create a god, we diminish humanity.

Tony Harrison

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Henry Kissinger

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Jane Austen

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

James Tiptree Jr.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

James E. Faust

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

D. H. Lawrence

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

Mick Jagger

Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through our memories, is so corruptible. The skills that I have can really display that.