Derek Jacobi Quotes
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.
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It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.
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Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years... and they are still poor.
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Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.
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There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
