Sam Neill (Nigel John Dermot Neill) Quotes
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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Early in your career, you feel like there is a formula, a path you have to take. You have to do this movie because this person directed it and you have to be associated with these people. In some ways, I have thrown that out.
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People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.
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People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.
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In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
