Domhnall Gleeson Quotes
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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I have always been very comfortable in little clothing; its part of my job.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.
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I like a scarf with a shirt; it throws it off a bit.
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Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.
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I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.
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Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.
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I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
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City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
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I've been stalked.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
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Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
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No matter who I meet, I won't have any pressure.
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School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.
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I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.
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What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.
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He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances.
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If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.
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I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.
