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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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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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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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I don't see myself acting for the rest of my life.
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If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.
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That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
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I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.
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There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
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I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.
