Desmond Llewelyn Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.
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Now, he was filled with a distaste for a civilization in which the individual was so prone and in which he must be so diligent just to preserve his sanity.
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I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.
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When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.
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I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.
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Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
