"A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement"

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Source : Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”

Clement Attlee

#Clever Quotes #People Quotes #Judgement Quotes

“I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.”

Source : "DVD RE-RUN: Jehane Noujaim On 'Control Room': 'My Loyalties Are to the Characters'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2004.
“I have great respect for Angela Merkel, even if we have a lot of differences.”
“How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.”
“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.”
“Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.”
“I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.”
“Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again.Â But it doesn't make you a terrible person.Â That's important to me.”
“You may change your profile picture to Trayvon Martin or Eric Garner, but you will never actually walk the streets the way they have, or systematically had your vertebrae stunted. So you will not walk that shrouded walk unless you're on the inside and you can occasionally nod at another on the inside and that acknowledgement can carry you for a while as it won't come from the outside.”

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