Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

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• Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Taken
  • Secret
  • Information

• We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Accept

• If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.

  

  Gary Numan
  • You
  • Me
  • Idea

• The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Very

• Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Child

• The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Me
  • Software

• I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Good
  • Want
  • Best

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• When I was shooting 'The Dark Knight,' I always felt like I was shooting an intimate drama for some reason. The scenes were all intimate, and they were always between a few individuals.

  

  Chin Han
  • Dark
  • Drama

• The strangest mores of the most of-the-way societies will, in spite of everything, be relatively comprehensible to the person who has a flesh-and-blood knowledge of man’s needs, anxieties, and hopes. If, on the other hand, this experience is lacking, he will not even be able to understand the customs of those about him.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • People
  • World
  • Opinion

• I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Job
  • Black

• Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Hand