Derek Jacobi Quotes

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Decisions

• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kind

• Everyone needs help when they try something new.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • New
  • Try

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Kind
  • Poverty
  • Argument

• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • Word

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Globalization

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Democracy
  • Daily
  • Without

• Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Corruption

• I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

  

  Iman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Years

• You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Poor
  • Part

• One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • People
  • Experience
  • You

• My golf game is lacking big time.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Game
  • Golf

• People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Time
  • Truth

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
  • Catholic
  • Mathematics

• I think it's really, really important to grow the consensus and to realize that there is always some value that can be shared with another American, on any issue. Starting from those points of common belief and shared values is very, I think, important to forging the consensus that allows these issues to more forward.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Important
  • American
  • Value

• When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Attention
  • Kid
  • Pressure

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses an existential threat.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dad

• I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

  

  Derek Jacobi
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