Mark Strong Quotes

The person I respect most, in terms of historical figures, is probably Nelson Mandela. I just think that his tolerance in the face of extreme provocation is something every single person on the planet could learn from.

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• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

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• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

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• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

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• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

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• I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Up
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• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Islamic
  • Nations
  • Philippines

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

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  • Drinking
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• Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

  

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• Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

  

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• I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

  

  Omar Sy
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• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

  

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• A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.

  

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  • Information
  • Collaboration

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

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  • Feeling

• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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  • Lazy

• I've always tried to put a little message in my music.

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
  • Music

• (Many have said) we need a carbon price and (investment) would be so much easier with a carbon price, but life is much more complex than that, i agree it would be more simple ... but it's not quite what we will have.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Life
  • Price
  • Complex

• How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Work
  • Feelings
  • Yourself

• The person I respect most, in terms of historical figures, is probably Nelson Mandela. I just think that his tolerance in the face of extreme provocation is something every single person on the planet could learn from.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Respect
  • Single
  • Tolerance