Dominic Purcell Quotes

I don't watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven't seen and I just pop them in.

Dominic Purcell

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• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Political
  • Control

• My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Father
  • Education
  • Poor

• Follow the yellow brick road.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Road
  • Follow
  • Yellow

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Value
  • Guitarist
  • Passages

• I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Style

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Team
  • Record
  • Earn

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Different
  • Heaven

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Running
  • Universe

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Challenge
  • Serious
  • Security

• The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Taxation

• I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Happy

• Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Confidence
  • You Can Do It

• I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Believe

• L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Alcohol
  • Exaltation
  • Palate

• This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

  

  John Spratt
  • War
  • Partner

• The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Father
  • Past
  • Running

• I don't watch TV dramas. I watch ESPN, HBO boxing, National Geographic Channel and I kind of like to get some DVDs, movies that I haven't seen and I just pop them in.

  

  Dominic Purcell
  • Boxing