Top 19 Andrew Denton Quotes
#1. Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
Andrew Denton
#2. We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
Bell Hooks
#3. I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
Andrew Denton
#4. He told me how it felt. He told me many things. No book can hold them.
M. Pierce
#5. Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.
Andrew Denton
#6. A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.
Andrew Denton
#7. The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance...
David Whyte
#8. I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
Andrew Denton
#9. We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.
Andrew Denton
#11. No, her I brought back because ... " Niko lifted his chin toward the moon. "She's magical."
"I get that, if by 'magical' you mean 'hot.'"
"I also mean magical.
Molly Ringle
#12. The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
Andrew Denton
#13. God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
Victor Hugo
#14. If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Andrew Denton
#15. The truth doesn't get you very far on the streets, or in a group home, or even in high school. That's probably why the idea of Liars, Inc. appealed to me. Everybody lies. You might as well get paid for it.
Paula Stokes
#16. You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Andrew Denton
#17. Sometimes in some places they would actually stop the train - keep the train from stopping at a particular station because they saw that there were so many black people there waiting to board and so therefore those people wouldn't get to leave.
Isabel Wilkerson
#18. Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
Andrew Denton
#19. puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting
Jack London
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