Christopher Plummer Quotes
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.
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I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that.
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Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.
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It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.
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There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.
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I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.
