David Thewlis Quotes

The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

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• Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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• I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Different
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
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  • Want

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
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  • Free

• A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Life
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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
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  • Up

• In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

  

  Barry Commoner
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• Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

  

  Zadie Smith
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  • Way
  • Expressing

• I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
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  • Small

• I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
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  • Blessed

• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

  

  Fisher Stevens
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• Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

  

  Dale Dauten
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  • Professional

• Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Falling

• It's hard not to take it personally when being wait-listed, passed over for a promotion, or losing a client to a competitor. But while feeling aggrieved may be an understandable reaction, it's not productive - it's not a good use of the experience.

  

  Adena Friedman
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• I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
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  • Rules

• I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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  • Country
  • Mind

• I've always loved fashion and, of course, enjoyed my experiences walking on runways, but I love watching the shows as well! Now I understand more why it's such a big deal for the industry and why people work so hard before and during fashion weeks. It's interesting to see the same things from a different angle.

  

  Tao Okamoto
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  • Work
  • Fashion

• Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Society
  • Community
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• The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mind