David Thewlis Quotes

Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines.

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• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Said
  • Everything
  • Got

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

  

  Xenophon
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Remember

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Products
  • Buying

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
  • Worlds
  • Untrue

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • College
  • Thoughts
  • Anxiety

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Technology
  • Need
  • Big

• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Principle

• Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • You
  • Research
  • News

• There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Friends
  • Forever
  • Texas

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Never
  • Experiences
  • Fishing

• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Discipline

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Remember
  • Difficult
  • Loving

• Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama's boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • March

• The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Community

• Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Remember
  • Alone