Purely Quotes

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.