Suppress Quotes

(when asked how being in prison has changed her angry and aggressive "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" character, Faith:) "How would prison change anyone? There was something about the fact that she`s a Slayer, so she wouldn`t really be there unless she wanted to be because she`s got superhuman strength. She could have busted out of that joint if she really wanted to, but she and Angel developed this relationship. He was leading her down the road to redemption, kind of facing the things she`s done and recovering from that and hopefully being a better her. She`s been in there, doing the time, thinking. She`s still a tough girl, but she really has to suppress her demons a little more. In these past few ("Angel") shows, that`s what we`re seeing -- her teetering on the line between the old her and the new her." (Buffalo News, March 17, 2003)

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

I don`t display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has but I`ve developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

I`m not accusing Warner Bros. of suppressing Toby in any way, shape, or form, ... It`s not some suit at Warner Bros. that goes, `That Toby, we`ve got to suppress him.` I know it sounded like that, but it`s not what I mean, and that`s stupid.

I`m not accusing Warner Bros. of suppressing Toby in any way, shape or form, ... It`s not some suit at Warner Bros. that goes, `That Toby, we`ve got to suppress him.` I know it sounded like that, but it`s not what I mean, and that`s stupid.

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

(On his movie "Happiness"): "It`s not for everyone and it`s not designed for everyone and I don`t think I`ll ever write anything that`s designed to appeal to everyone. If you want sympathetic characters it`s easy enough to do, you just give someone cancer and of course we`ll all feel horribly sad and sorry. You make anyone a victim and people feel that way. But that`s not of interest to me as a filmmaker or as a writer. I may be accused of a certain kind of misanthropy but I think I could argue the opposite. I think that it`s only by acknowledging the flaws, the foibles, the failings and so forth of who we are that we can in fact fully embrace the all of who we are. People say I`m cruel or that the film`s cruel, but I think rather it exposes the cruelty and I think that certainly the capacity for cruelty is the most difficult, the most painful thing for any of us to acknowledge. That we are at all capable. And yet I think that it exists as much as the capacity for kindness and it`s only the best of us that are able to suppress, sublimate, re-channel and so forth these baser instincts, but I see them to some degree at play as a regular part of life in very subtle ways and not so subtle ways. I don`t think that after the seventh grade that these impulses evaporate. So from my perspective I`m trying to be honest with what I see and what I`ve experienced and what I believe is true to our nature."

There is still a lot to learn about how exercise affects the immune system, because it`s difficult for researchers to assess the many layers of protection within the system. Strenuous or prolonged exercise seems to suppress the immune system, leaving athletes more susceptible to illness for one to six hours following a hard workout - the so-called open window.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

He who can suppress a moment`s anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

In general, three miles of marsh will suppress one foot of surge. When Katrina hit, we lost 100 square miles of marsh.

The only sure remedy for air traffic control congestion in the near term would be a recession that would suppress demand. Who among us wants to advocate that to the American people?

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.